UN Nuclear Watchdog Finds Traces of Uranium at Iranian Site Revealed by Israel

The United Nations’ atomic watchdog reportedly found traces of uranium at a facility in Tehran exposed by Israel. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu last year revealed details of the “secret atomic warehouse” following a Mossad operation that recovered thousands of documents apparently proving the Islamic Republic had worked toward producing a nuclear weapon. The archive showed that Tehran had created a program – “Project Amad” – that aimed to “design, produce and test five warheads, each with [a] 10-kiloton TNT yield for integration on a missile,” according to text uncovered in one of the retrieved files. UN inspectors arrived in Iran this week after the regime announced it was reducing its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal. US National Security Adviser John Bolton demanded an immediate explanation, which the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to provide. Over the weekend, a spokesman for Iran’s atomic agency confirmed that his organization had “started lifting limitations on our research and development imposed by the [nuclear] deal… [which] will include development of more rapid and advanced centrifuges.”