Where are the Iranian uranium supplies?

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi saw hardly any room for diplomacy after the US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. The United States had “exceeded a very thick red line” and “blown up” diplomacy, he said on Sunday at the meeting of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul.

The door to diplomacy should always be kept open, but that is currently “not the case”, Araqchi criticized. “They only understand the language of threats and violence.” Iran must now react on the basis of its “legitimate right to self -defense”.

So far, specific steps have not been mentioned. The anger of the Mullah regime is still looking against Israel at the moment, and the mutual attacks continued on Sunday.

If you believe the London news portal “Amwaj Media”, which is known for its good sources in Iran, the Trump government is said to have informed the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday. Washington assured the Iranians that “no total confrontation” is being sought and that one would limit yourself to the attacks on nuclear systems. US President Trump had expressed himself in a similar way.

As Amwaj Media reports, high -ranking Iranian sources are said to have confirmed that the attacked locations have been evacuated in the past few days and weeks and the “majority” of the Iranian stocks are now kept in safe places.

“Still nuclear program”

Trita Parsi, the deputy chairman of the Washington Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, also fears that the Iranians have “moved their most important resources for some time. As long as the Iranians have enriched uranium, they still have a nuclear program that could actually be expanded,” said Parsi to the television broadcaster Al Jazera.

According to the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency on May 31 of this year, Iran has more than 9,000 kilograms enriched uranium, of which more than 400 kilograms were enriched to the critical 60 percent mark. For the construction of an atomic bomb, this uranium would still have to be enriched to 90 percent, which is said to be possible within a few weeks. “The fissile material is the first huge milestone on the way to a successful nuclear weapons program. It doesn’t work without these materials,” emphasizes Georg Steinhäuser, radiochemical professor at the Vienna University of Vienna.

It will probably only turn out in a few months whether Iran could really hide its highly enriched uranium. If the construction of an atomic bomb, as Iran has repeatedly claimed in recent years, have been “not an issue”, then the voices of those who urge the development of a nuclear weapon are likely to be louder.

In fact, the country is probably worried at the moment. “The preservation of the Islamic Republic is now a top priority,” said Vali Nasr, Iran expert and professor of international relations at John’s Hopkins University, the New York Times. According to the sheet, the revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei is aware that he could either be murdered by Israel or the USA in the foreseeable future. He therefore instructed the expert assembly responsible for the succession regulation to select his successor from three names given by him.

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