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Iran says it has the ability to enrich uranium ‘at any percentage’

By Zach Halaschak
Published January 25, 2020 5:35pm ET
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Iran says it has the ability to enrich uranium ‘at any percentage’
Unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors and Iranian technicians are on hand to cut the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium enrichment at Natanz facility, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. | (Kazem Ghane/AP)

Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium at any level, the country’s nuclear agency said.

Ali Asghar Zarean, the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said in a report on Saturday that should the country wish to enrich uranium to exceedingly high levels, it would have the ability to do so.

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