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Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency released its quarterly report<\/a> on Iran\u2019s nuclear program. It showed that the\u00a0regime\u2019s\u00a0stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium had grown by more than a third since the previous quarterly report and that its stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium had grown to 10 kg.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The overall picture presented by the report is one of the nuclear programs more advanced than it was in 2015, prior to the completion of negotiations with six world powers, which yielded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That agreement was meant to extend the regime\u2019s \u201cbreakout time\u201d for a nuclear weapon from a few months to well over a year. Yet, the JCPOA had many loopholes allowing the regime to rapidly resume its nuclear weapon program. This was proven when the Iranian regime began systematically violating its responsibilities under the deal, even though the other five parties \u2013 the UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China \u2013 remained committed to it in word and deed.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That commitment has proven unfortunate insofar as it has emboldened\u00a0the\u00a0mullahs\u2019\u00a0to continue taking ever more provocative steps\u00a0while demanding that the European signatories either compel the US to rejoin the agreement or help Iran evade US sanctions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tehran\u00a0formally halted compliance with the JCPOA altogether in February 2020, thereby starting itself on the path to its current situation, showing once again how flawed and incomplete\u00a0was the JCPOA\u00a0in controlling the regime\u2019s nuclear program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Iranian officials have acknowledged the regime\u2019s deceptive strategies. In February 2021, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi confirmed that the regime would be free to pursue a nuclear weapon in spite of a fatwa from the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, which supposedly commands the opposite. \u201cThe fatwa forbids the production of nuclear weapons, but if they push Iran in those directions, it is not Iran\u2019s fault,\u201d he said. \u201cThose who pushed Iran in that direction will be to blame.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The statement reflects a longstanding strategy whereby Tehran has publicly denied aspiring to nuclear weapons capability but has openly threatened the international community with measures that have little to no other purpose other than to move the country closer to that outcome. This has been especially apparent with regime authorities boasting about things like the ongoing production of uranium metal, a key component in the core of a nuclear weapon.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is\u00a0absolutely clear\u00a0that such provocations<\/a> are part of a \u201cnuclear blackmail.\u201d The Iranian Resistance has produced a number of reports on the military dimensions of Iran\u2019s nuclear program and the regime\u2019s efforts to deceive the international community about such things. Those reports largely consist of intelligence gathering by the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, which made the first major revelations about the regime\u2019s undeclared nuclear activities in 2002.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Publication of the latest Iranian Resistance report in May closely coincided with the release of the previous IAEA quarterly report. Around that time, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi was making public comments that were uncommonly critical of the Iranian regime and also of Western policies toward it. In at least one statement to reporters, Grossi indicated that ongoing talks in Geneva were too short-sighted in their emphasis on simply reviving the JCPOA. This, he said, would not solve outstanding issues because \u201cIran has accumulated knowledge, has accumulated centrifuges and has accumulated material\u201d well beyond the levels that were discussed in advance of the 2015 deal.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n #Iran<\/a>\u2019s regime continues to defy int\u2019l community on its nuclear program<\/p>\n As world powers try to find a solution to Iran\u2019s nuclear impasse, Tehran continues to show lack that it has no interest in resolving its controversial program.#JCPOA<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/PQNWseqDX8<\/a><\/p>\n — People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n