Iran starts processing nuclear fuel towards weapons-grade strength

ran today started to enrich its existing nuclear fuel stockpile towards weapons grade strength.

The move caused international alarm and gave new impetus to Western calls for new sanctions on Tehran despite opposition from China, which insists that negotiations could still succeed.

"Today we started to make 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel... in the presence of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors at Natanz," an unnamed official told Iran's Arabic-language state television, al Alam.

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