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Mosby

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Mon Mar 5, 2012, 02:35 PM Mar 2012

IAEA voices 'serious concerns' about possible military dimensions to Iran nuclear program

Iran has tripled its monthly production of higher-grade enriched uranium and the UN nuclear watchdog has "serious concerns" about possible military dimensions to Tehran's atomic activities, the agency's chief said on Monday.

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During the meetings in the Iranian capital in January and February, Iranian officials stonewalled the IAEA's requests for access to a military site seen as central to its investigation into the nature of the Islamic state's nuclear activity.

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Since the IAEA's previous report in November, Amano said Iran has tripled monthly production of uranium refined to a fissile concentration of 20 percent - well above the level usually needed to run nuclear power plants.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iaea-voices-serious-concerns-about-possible-military-dimensions-to-iran-nuclear-program-1.416620

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