ALBAWABA - Enriched Uranium remains a major dispute point between the United States and Iran, as Washington wants to transfer it outside Tehran, while the latter has not responded to the latest proposal yet.
An Iranian state-run newspaper warned on Tuesday that the U.S. insistence on stripping Tehran of its enriched uranium stockpile could be a prelude to a nuclear attack aimed at subjugating Iran.
Ettela'at newspaper warned that the leaders of the U.S. and Israel may see bombing Iran with nuclear weapons as the only way to subdue it after other means of pressure have failed, noting that uranium enrichment has been one of the most contentious issues in nuclear negotiations between Iran and Western countries, especially the United States, for more than two decades, and that in recent years the issue of stockpiles of highly enriched uranium exceeding 60 percent has been added to it.
A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on November 9, 2019, shows spokesman for the organisation Behrouz Kamalvandi speaking during a press conference at the Fordo (Forwdow) Uranium Conversion Facility in Qom. AFP PHOTO / HO / ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION OF IRAN
The Iranian newspaper, which is close to the reformists, explained that some American circles are comparing Iran and Japan in World War II from the perspective of the new conservative currents, where the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are seen as the sole factor that forced the Japanese Empire to surrender.
At the same time, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, described the process of transferring those stockpiles abroad as technically complex and highly sensitive, stressing that any future nuclear agreement must take into account Iran’s current technological development and post-war conditions.
