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Uranium production: Iran plans to boost it, says IAEA

Macron fears 'increased' risk of secret uranium enrichment in Iran now
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Iran plans to “significantly increase” production of highly enriched uranium, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday in a confidential report seen by AFP.

An updated design of Iran’s Fordo plant showed that the effect of the change “would be to significantly increase the rate of production of uranium enriched up to 60 percent,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report said.

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency.

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