{"id":410651,"date":"2021-04-14T10:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410651"},"modified":"2021-04-14T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:13:05","slug":"iran-to-enrich-uranium-to-highest-level-ever-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-to-enrich-uranium-to-highest-level-ever-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to enrich uranium to highest level ever: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will begin enriching uranium to 60 per cent purity, higher than the programme ever has before though still short of weapons grade, after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, an Iranian negotiator said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement marks a significant escalation after the sabotage, suspected to have been carried out by Israel. It could result in further action by Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed never to allow Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon, and further raise tensions across West Asia. <\/p>\n<p>Nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi\u2019s comment, quoted by the state-run Irna news agency, came after Iran\u2019s foreign minister warned that the weekend assault could hurt ongoing negotiations over its tattered atomic deal with world powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will begin enriching uranium to 60 per cent purity, higher than the programme ever has before though still short of weapons grade, after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, an Iranian negotiator said on Tuesday. The announcement marks a significant escalation after the sabotage, suspected to have been carried out by Israel. It could result in further action by Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed never to allow Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon, and further raise tensions across West Asia. Nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi\u2019s comment, quoted by the state-run Irna news agency, came after Iran\u2019s [&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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410651","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=410651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}