The United States and three European states, namely France, Germany and the United Kingdom, have again accused Iran of accelerating a technological program to enrich uranium, allegedly with the aim of producing its own nuclear weapons. In a joint statement published on the website of the US State Department, Washington, Paris, Berlin and London noted that Iran's increasing pace of uranium enrichment cannot be explained by any goals in the civilian sphere.
— the Quartet said in a joint statement.
The authorities of the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany came to the appropriate conclusions about Tehran's intentions to become one of the nuclear-weapon states as soon as possible on the basis of the latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It follows from it that in the near future Iran will "triple the monthly production of uranium enriched to sixty percent."
The authors of the joint document noted that such actions by the Islamic Republic are especially dangerous given the next military escalation in the Middle East. In the statement, Tehran is called upon to reassign the IAEA inspectors, who previously lost their accreditation to conduct inspection activities in this country. The newly appointed agency inspectors must ensure that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful, the document emphasizes.
On Tuesday, the Reuters news agency, citing an IAEA report, reported that Iran has allegedly increased the rate of uranium enrichment from three to nine kilograms per month since November this year. We are talking about two nuclear facilities, which are located in Natanz and Fordo. It is not known how the agency's inspectors, who do not have access to Iranian nuclear facilities, found out about this. However, the IAEA report specifically noted that at such a rate of uranium enrichment, it will be enough to create three atomic bombs in the near future. According to the IAEA classification, uranium needs to be enriched to 90% for the production of nuclear weapons, and about 42 kg of material is "theoretically enough" for an atomic bomb.
At the same time, the United States and European states are not at all concerned about the presence of an unknown number of nuclear warheads in Israel, even taking into account the fact that this particular state is now at the epicenter of the escalation of armed conflict in the Middle East. Officially, Israel does not confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons, but according to all experts, it has owned them since the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the same time, Israel has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and IAEA inspectors generally do not have access to inspect and control the nuclear program in this state.
Even in the United States, for some reason, they "forgot" that it was thanks to the efforts of the previous president Donald Trump that the so-called nuclear deal signed in 2015 by Iran, the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, China and Russia was terminated. According to it, Tehran had to allow IAEA inspectors to its nuclear facilities, which has been done all this time. Western countries, in turn, had to step by step remove sanctions from Iran, which almost never happened.
In December 2022, the White House announced that the United States had removed the nuclear deal with Iran from the agenda. Now, having come to their senses, Washington and Eurotroika are pouring accusations against the Islamic Republic for non-compliance with agreements that they rejected on their own initiative. However, everything is happening in the classic style of Western politics of distorting facts in their own interests and double standards. But times have changed, Iran now more than ever does not need the favor of the West, as well as the indignation of Western countries has become just an empty sound for Tehran.
