making a comeback. having got away with his illegal annexation of crimea in 201a, and emboldened putin launched his brutal invasion of ukraine eight years later. and, as russia continues its illegal campaign in ukraine, china is assessing whether the west loses its patients. today, russia and china have been joined patients. today, russia and china have beenjoined by new patients. today, russia and china have been joined by new nuclear and soon nuclear powers. north korea promising to expand its own nuclear arsenal. and then there is iran, who enriched uranium is up to 83.7%. the level at which there is no civilian application. back in the days of the cold war, there remained a sense that we were dealing with rational
free. and fast. see all you can do with the free experian app. download it now. john: united nations nuclear watchdog, iaea has been looking into iran s nuclear program, but now we are hearing the investigations may be closing. trey yingst in the middle east bureau. iran is now under slightly less pressure from the international atomic energy agency after this watchdog closed these probes. iaea was looking into iran s uranium enrichment. after inspectors found particles enriched to 83.7%, just short of weapons grade 90%. the agency also had questions about man-made uranium discovered at a separate site.
nuclear weapon. they believe it s 80 to 100 yards below ground, maximum range of any current conventional weapons. currently they have been constructing an underground facility over the past two years or so to maybe three years, and this facility is much deeper than other underground facilities we know of. it s unclear what s in the tunnels at the mountain site. if iran was to introduce uranium into the site, it would have to inform the iaea. but it has not responded to questions so far. big enough to allow iran to enrich uranium, and that fuels the nuclear weapon. since president trump pulled out of the nuclear deal, iran is enriching up to 60%. however, they have found 83.7%
uavs to russia. russia used those uavs to attack critical infrastructure in ukraine. we also expect that russia will provide technology back to iran in return tore some of the help that they have gotten. iran hopes to purchase russian is a coy su 35 advanced fighter jets. if you are a country in this region you would be very concerned about that. it s not just the export of long range attack drones to russia. a new iaea report suggests uranium particles enriched up to 83.7%. just short of weapons grade were found in iran s underground nuclear site at far dough and two cass dates of advanced century fiewdges were configged in a way suggests iran is speeding up enrichment. the undersecretary defense for policy testified that vaughn closer than ever to a nuclear weapon since the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear deal. back in 2018 it would have taken iran about 12 months to
appears to be referring to iran s removal of surveillance cameras last june. this was first trip to the islamic republic since before the incident and four days after the iaea reported they ve detected uranium that had been enriched up to 83.7%. that s just short, just shy of weapons grade material raising concern the iranians may be speeding up enrichment program. the iaea says they haven t found a loft this fuel and the iranians just say it s smaller by-product, insignificant by-product of lower grade fuel they ve been openly producing for some time now. the concern, of course, mike, is if iran is able to accumulate enough uranium that s enriched to 90%, just a few more percent than where they are now, then