Iran boosts enrichment after nuke plant blast
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Iran鈥檚 President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday its decision to boost uranium enrichment to 60 percent was a response to Israel鈥檚 鈥渘uclear terrorism鈥 against its Natanz facility.
Tehran starting advanced centrifuges and producing more highly refined uranium 鈥渋s a response to your malice,鈥 Rouhani said in a message aimed at the Jewish state.
鈥淲hat you did was nuclear terrorism,鈥 he said in televised remarks, referring to a blast on Sunday that knocked out electricity at the country鈥檚 main nuclear facility. 鈥淲hat we do is legal.鈥
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement but public radio reports in the country said it was a sabotage operation by the Mossad spy agency. Rouhani said Iran鈥檚 security bodies were yet to provide a final report but the incident appeared to be a 鈥淶ionists鈥 crime.鈥
Iran鈥檚 envoy to the UN鈥檚 International Atomic Energy Agency, Kazem Gharibabadi, wrote on Twitter that steps to allow enrichment to higher purity had started and that 鈥渨e expect to accumulate the product next week.鈥
Iran鈥檚 announcement has cast a shadow over talks aimed at salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that then US president Donald Trump abandoned three years ago.
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