https://www.newsweek.com/irans-nuclear-activity-raises-eyebrows-1893840
By: Jon Jackson, Associate Editor
The head of the United Nations‘ nuclear watchdog said Monday that Iran’s recent nuclear activity “raises eyebrows,” adding that Tehran could produce a nuclear bomb within weeks.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Mariano Grossi made the comments during an interview with German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) in which he discussed Iran’s enriched uranium levels. The IAEA previously said in a December report that Iran had tripled its uranium enrichment level to 60 percent. The agency noted that the level was not far away from the weapons-grade threshold of 90 percent.
Grossi’s latest warning comes as tensions between Iran and Israel remain high after Tehran responded to an alleged Israeli strike on an Iranian embassy in Syria by launching drones and missiles against Israel on April 13 in an attack that was mostly thwarted. “I have been telling my Iranian counterparts time and again…this [nuclear] activity raises eyebrows and compounded with the fact that we are not getting the necessary degree of access and visibility that I believe should be necessary,” Grossi told DW.
