{"id":4227,"date":"2021-01-14T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:48:30","slug":"iran-expands-nuclear-program-amid-heightened-tensions-with-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4227","title":{"rendered":"Iran expands nuclear program amid heightened tensions with the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The new 20 percent enrichment target was set by Iran\u2019s parliament last month in response to the assassination<\/a> of the country\u2019s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Fakhrizadeh was killed near Tehran on November 27, 2020, in an ambush that Iran has blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the same new law that mandates 20 percent enrichment also raises the imminent specter of international nuclear inspectors being expelled from the country: According to the New York Times<\/a>, Iran has set \u201ca two-month deadline for oil and banking sanctions against Iran to be lifted before inspectors are barred.\u201d Currently, the IAEA says<\/a> it has \u201cinspectors present in Iran on a 24\/7 basis and they have regular access to Fordow.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In November 2020, Iran began operating<\/a> advanced centrifuges at another underground nuclear facility, Natanz, and its nuclear stockpile<\/a> stood at more than 12 times the limit imposed by the JCPOA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US President-elect Joe Biden, who will take office on January 20, has indicated<\/a> that he hopes to rejoin and revive the JCPOA, which was negotiated while he was serving as vice president to President Barack Obama. Some observers see Iran\u2019s enrichment efforts as a way of building negotiating leverage<\/a>, but it remains to be seen whether recent strides in Iran\u2019s nuclear program could complicate things.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/2\/22210282\/iran-nuclear-program-uranium-20-percent-soleimani-tensions-with-us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The new 20 percent enrichment target was set by Iran\u2019s parliament last month in response to the assassination of the country\u2019s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Fakhrizadeh was killed near Tehran on November 27, 2020, in an ambush that Iran has blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n

And the same new law that mandates 20 percent enrichment also raises the imminent specter of international nuclear inspectors being expelled from the country: According to the New York Times, Iran has set \u201ca two-month deadline for oil and banking sanctions against Iran to be lifted before inspectors are barred.\u201d Currently, the IAEA says it has \u201cinspectors present in Iran on a 24\/7 basis and they have regular access to Fordow.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“In November 2020, Iran began operating advanced centrifuges at another underground nuclear facility, Natanz, and its nuclear stockpile stood at more than 12 times the limit imposed by the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

US President-elect Joe Biden, who will take office on January 20, has indicated that he hopes to rejoin and revive the JCPOA, which was negotiated while he was serving as vice president to President Barack Obama. Some observers see Iran\u2019s enrichment efforts as a way of building negotiating leverage, but it remains to be seen whether recent strides in Iran\u2019s nuclear program could complicate things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,314,156,180,444,512,276,994],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-power","tag-nuclear-proliferation","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}