Iran Starts Uranium Enrichment

Iran announced that it has started enrichment of its uranium to 20 percent, prompting fresh calls for sanctions.
Iran Starts Uranium Enrichment
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks under a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini during a visit to the 2nd National Festival of Innovation and Prosperity in Tehran on February 8, 2010. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks under a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini during a visit to the 2nd National Festival of Innovation and Prosperity in Tehran on February 8, 2010. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)
Iran announced that it has started enrichment of its uranium to 20 percent, prompting fresh calls for sanctions. Iran’s Arabic language television channel, al-Alam, said production had started at the Natanz plant on Tuesday.

Ali Shirzadian, a spokesman for the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, told Reuters that “preparatory work” had began at 9:30 a.m. in the presence of representatives from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).