Key Points
Security Council on Thursday over Tehran's advancing uranium enrichment and its reported supply of combat drones to Moscow being used to attack Ukraine...
The sharp exchanges came at the council's semi-annual meeting on implementation of its resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major countries known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which the U.S. under then-President Donald Trump left in 2018...
U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood countered, accusing both Iran and Russia of participating in the transfer of drones used in Ukraine without prior Security Council approval in violation of the 2015 resolution...
They pointed to the International Atomic Energy Agency's reports that Iran's total stockpiles of enriched uranium are now 21 times the amount permitted under the 2015 nuclear deal and the IAEA's detection in January of uranium particles enriched to 83.7%, which is almost at weapons-grade levels of 90%..
Iran informed the IAEA that unintended fluctuations in enrichment levels may have occurred accounting for the particles enriched to 83.7%, and Iravani, the Iranian ambassador, and Russia's Nebenzia both said the issue has been resolved...
