The meeting was to have taken place at the nuclear watchdog IAEA board meeting which began in Vienna Monday. The IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei said the brewing confrontation with Iran must be defused and the current stalemate urgently needs to be broken.
He said: "The facts on the ground indicate that Iran continues steadily to perfect its knowledge relevant to enrichment and to expand the capacity of its enrichment facility" in Natanz.
Iran is also continuing "with the construction of its heavy water reactor at Arak," which can produce plutonium, like enriched uranium a potential bomb material, and blocking "our right to re-verify design information at Arak," ElBaradei said.
His report will be submitted to the next UN Security Council session due to discuss harsher sanctions against Iran later this month.
Ahead of the watchdog's meeting, diplomats in Vienna disclosed that Iran is expanding the assembly of centrifuges by 300 a week, and the number had risen to more than 2,000.
DEBKAfile’s military sources estimate that Tehran may have produced enough enriched uranium for one or two nuclear devices, though lacking the technology to build a bomb.
Source - DEBKAFile
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