{"id":435055,"date":"2021-04-20T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435055"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:49:01","slug":"iran-says-60-percent-enrichment-meant-to-show-nuclear-prowess-is-reversible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-says-60-percent-enrichment-meant-to-show-nuclear-prowess-is-reversible\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Says 60 Percent Enrichment Meant to Show Nuclear Prowess, Is Reversible"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-says-60-percent-enrichment-meant-to-show-nuclear-prowess-is-reversible%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435055&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>DUBAI\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-iran\">Iran<\/a> began enriching uranium to 60 percent purity in order to show its technical capacity after a sabotage attack at a nuclear plant, and the move is quickly reversible if the United States lifts sanctions, the Iranian government said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Talks in Vienna aimed at bringing the United States and Iran back to full compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal have been further complicated by an explosion at Iran\u2019s main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has responded by saying it is enriching uranium to 60 percent fissile purity, a big step towards weapons-grade from the 20 percent it had previously achieved. The 2015 pact between Iran and world powers had capped the level of enrichment purity at 3.67 percent\u2014suitable for generating civilian nuclear energy. Iran denies seeking a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe start of 60 percent enrichment in Natanz was a demonstration of our technical ability to respond to terrorist sabotage at these facilities,\u201d Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei told reporters in Tehran.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3778849\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3778849 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2861.jpeg\" alt=\"nuclear-facility\" width=\"640\" height=\"530\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/noscript><\/figcaption>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility, on April 14, 2021. (Planet Labs via AP)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs in previous steps (in curbing Iran\u2019s commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal) \u2026 this measure can quickly be reversed for a return to the agreed enrichment level in the nuclear accord if other parties commit to their obligations,\u201d Rabiei said, in remarks streamed live on a state-run website.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran says the Natanz blast was an act of sabotage by Israel, and on Saturday Iranian authorities named a suspect. Israel has not formally commented on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Iran responded to the explosion by saying it is enriching uranium to 60 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and world powers have made some progress on how to revive the 2015 nuclear accord later abandoned by the United States, and an interim deal could be a way to gain time for a lasting settlement, Iranian officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told visiting British Cabinet Office Minister Michel Gove that Iran should not be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is undermining stability in the entire Middle East and the international community must act to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability. Not today and not in the future,\u201d an Israeli statement quoted Ashkenazi as saying.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Dubai newsroom<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI\u2014Iran began enriching uranium to 60 percent purity in order to show its technical capacity after a sabotage attack at a nuclear plant, and the move is quickly reversible if &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2861.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Iran Says 60 Percent Enrichment Meant to Show Nuclear Prowess, Is Reversible","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2861.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Iran Says 60 Percent Enrichment Meant to Show Nuclear Prowess, Is Reversible","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}