Iran is causing worry for the leaders of the world. It has produced the minimum amount of low- enriched uranium that is required to make a bomb if it was processed to weapons grade. Such a scenario would only take place in the event of the expulsion of the UN inspectors stationed there.
The uranium is stored at the Natanz plant which is constantly monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, an arm of the UN created to watch over the adherence of countries to the nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT). At its current level of enrichment, the uranium could fuel a power station. The NPT prohibits further enrichment of uranium.
The growing alarm of the rest of the world is evident from the fact that since March 2007, the IAEA has made 20 unannounced visits to Natanz where it has remote surveillance equipment.
Iran has been fighting to retain its right to produce uranium to fuel its power stations. After the U.S. and major allies around the world alleged that Iran was enriching uranium to create nuclear weapons in 2003, Iran has been put under three sets of UN sanctions.
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