{"id":410636,"date":"2021-04-14T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410636"},"modified":"2021-04-14T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:01:48","slug":"iran-to-enrich-uranium-to-highest-level-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-to-enrich-uranium-to-highest-level-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to enrich uranium to highest level ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian nuclear negotiator says Tehran will begin enriching uranium to 60% purity after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, higher than the program ever has before.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas Araghchi made the comment Tuesday in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>He was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had been enriching up to 20%. That is a short technical step to weapons-grade levels.<\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Press TV, the Iranian state television\u2019s English-language arm, separately said that the IAEA had been informed of the move. It said the enrichment would begin as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian nuclear negotiator says Tehran will begin enriching uranium to 60% purity after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, higher than the program ever has before. Abbas Araghchi made the comment Tuesday in Vienna. He was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency. Iran had been enriching up to 20%. That is a short technical step to weapons-grade levels. The International Atomic Energy Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Press TV, the Iranian state television\u2019s English-language arm, separately said that the IAEA had been informed of the move. It said the enrichment would begin [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410636","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=410636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}