{"id":393437,"date":"2021-01-05T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393437"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T06:04:27","slug":"iran-says-it-begins-20-uranium-enrichment-amid-us-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-says-it-begins-20-uranium-enrichment-amid-us-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it begins 20% uranium enrichment amid US tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: An Iranian government spokesman says Tehran has begun enriching uranium up to 20% at an underground facility.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run IRNA news agency on Monday quoted Ali Rabiei saying President Hassan Rouhani had given the order for the move at the Fordo facility.<\/p>\n<p>Enrichment at 20% is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities, tensions that only abated with the 2015 atomic deal. A resumption of 20% enrichment could see that brinksmanship return. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes after President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. unilaterally from Iran&#8217;s nuclear deal with world powers in 2018. In the time since, there have been a series of escalating incidents between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: An Iranian government spokesman says Tehran has begun enriching uranium up to 20% at an underground facility. The state-run IRNA news agency on Monday quoted Ali Rabiei saying President Hassan Rouhani had given the order for the move at the Fordo facility. Enrichment at 20% is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. Iran&#8217;s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities, tensions that only abated with the 2015 atomic deal. A resumption of 20% enrichment could see that brinksmanship return. The move comes after President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}