Iran is capable to enrich uranium to any percentage, official says

Iran's uranium reserve has exceeded 1,200 kilos and has the capacity to enrich uranium to any percentage, reported the special advisor to the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran (AEOI), Ali Asghar Zarean.

Zarean said that after the fifth, and final, step in reducing nuclear commitments taken by Iran on January 5, "the uranium reserves have exceeded twelve hundred kilos and the reserve of enriched uranium us uncreasing at full speed", the agency reported.

"Currently, if the system decides, the OEAI has the capacity to enrich uranium at any percentage," stressed Zarean, who recalled that Iran has previously sold eight tons if "yellow cake", as "the raw material for the production of enriched uranium." 

Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium continues to increase, the head of the UN atomic watchdog agency said two weeks ago, adding that it has been three years since the agency was able to access the country.

US threats to Iran

The US will not allow Iran to build a nuclear bomb, the State Deparment said in May, one day after a senior Iranian official said Tehran would have no option but to change its nuclear doctrine in the face of Israel's threats. 

The US State Department said that Iran is not taking any "key activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device."

He also said that Iran does not possess Nuclear weapons and that there is a fatwa from the supreme leader regarding this matter, "but what should you do if the enemy threatens you? You will inevitably have to make changes to your doctrine, the US does not that the Supreme Leader has yet made a decision to resume (nuclear) weaponization program that we judge  Iran suspended or stopped in at the end of 2003."