Iran claims has enriched uranium to 4.8 percent

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May. 02 – Iran announced on Tuesday that it had managed to successfully enrich uranium to 4.8 percent, up from the earlier figure of 3.5 percent. Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, May. 02 – Iran announced on Tuesday that it had managed to successfully enrich uranium to 4.8 percent, up from the earlier figure of 3.5 percent.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Gholamreza Aghazadeh made the announcement in an interview with the state-run news agency ISNA.

The report said that Tehran did not plan to carry out uranium enrichment to more than 5 percent.

The announcement came as high-ranking officials from the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council as well as Germany are gathering in Paris to discuss steps to take over Iran’s decision to commence uranium enrichment.

Aghazadeh said that the Islamic Republic was unwilling to forgo its “right” to carry out enrichment.

Both the council and the International Atomic Energy Agency had called on Tehran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities, fearing that the radical theocracy was trying to develop nuclear weapons.