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Analysis: Risks grow after blast hits Iran’s nuclear program

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A mysterious explosion and place of fire at Iran’s major nuclear facilities would possibly have prevented Tehran from building complex centrifuges, although that probably has not slowed the Islamic Republic by expanding its growing inventory of unen enriched uranium stocks. Limiting that inventory was one of the most important principles of the nuclear deal that world powers reached Iran five years ago this week, a deal that is now in tatters after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States two years ago. As this inventory grows, the more so becomes the so-called “break time,” the moment Iran would want to build a nuclear weapon if it so decides. And while Tehran insists that its atomic agenda is for non-violent purposes, it has renewed threats to withdraw from a key non-proliferation treaty as the United States attempts to expand a United Nations arms embargo against Iran that expires in October. All this construction increases the threat of additional clashes in the coming months. Iranian authorities probably identified this by learning the magnitude of the July 2 explosion at the Natanz compound in Iran’s central Isfahan province. First, they minimized the chimney, describing the site as a “hangar,” even when analysts told The Associated Press without delay that the explosion had hit Natanz’s new complex centrifuge meeting facilities. A few days later, Iran stated that the chimney had hit the facility and posed the option of sabotage on the site, which in the past was attacked by the Virus Pc. However, he was careful not to directly blame the United States or Israel, whose officials strongly advised that they had participated in the chimney. A claim of duty for the attack only aroused suspicions of foreign influence in the explosion. A direct accusation by Tehran would increase tension over Iran’s Shiite theocracy to respond, Array…

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