A report prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna estimates Iran has accumulated low-enriched uranium (1,339 kilos produced since November 2008 plus 839 kilos in stock) enough to convert into the quantity of high-enriched uranium needed for making a single nuclear bomb.
More than 7,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges were now installed at Natanz, 2,000 more than reported in February, the watchdog said.
Iran can be assumed to have amassed more fissile material than the agency has discovered. Its officials admit that their investigations are stymied both in Iran and Syria, where the IAEA reported Friday, June 5 that its inspectors had found new traces of man-made uranium.
The particles were found at a nuclear site in Syria, but the inspectors say their composition does not match the kind of uranium associated with that site and is therefore suspicious.
The nuclear watchdog confirms that Iran continues to expand uranium enrichment despite three UN Security Council resolutions banning the process and imposing sanctions. [Shocker.] -- DEBKAfile
Update: IAEA: Iran Has Centrifuges for Two Nuclear Weapons Per Year
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Iran has proven they can build things in secret, Mr. Albright, of the Institute for Science and International Security, told The Washington Times. The Natanz facility was kept hidden from nuclear inspectors until its existence was revealed by an Iranian dissident group in 2002. Mr. Albright said the Kalaye Electric laboratory that conducted centrifuge research development in the 1990s was also kept from inspectors.
That said, Mr. Albright maintains that it is still unclear whether Iran had a parallel weapons program. We just don't know, he said.
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