Iran's nuclear chief shrugs off IAEA report on uranium enrichment

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami brushed aside the most recent report from the UN nuclear agency about Iran’s enrichment activities as a politically-motivated media program that does not contain anything new, Tasnim news agency reports.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a weekly session of the administration’s cabinet on Wednesday, Eslami dismissed the new report attributed to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which claims that Iran had reversed a slowdown in its uranium enrichment activities.

“The political media move that has been mooted again about Iran’s enrichment is nothing new and had already been mentioned in a report from the chair of the Board of Governors,” he stated.

Denouncing the reports surrounding Iran’s uranium enrichment program as a media hullabaloo with certain objectives, Eslami said the enemies seek to put the spotlight on Iran to distract the public attention from the dire political situation they are facing after the war on Gaza.

We would like to remind you that on December 26 the Western media, which had seen the IAEA report, reported that Iran had again increased the production rate of uranium enriched to 60 per cent. According to the agency, the country has reached the level of nine kilograms per month.