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06-15-2011
Iran To Step Up Uranium Enrichment
Despite multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to stop enriching uranium, the Iranian government has announced plans to triple its capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent.




Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS
The reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. The photo was released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) in 2009. (AP Photo/ISNA,Mehdi Ghasemi)
If Iran continues to ignore its nuclear obligations the international community will have no choice but to consider additional steps to induce it to change course.
Despite multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to stop enriching uranium, the Iranian government has announced plans to triple its capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent.

Enriched uranium can be used to produce fuel for nuclear reactors, or, at higher levels, can form the core of a nuclear weapon."

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