BARI, italy
The Group of Seven leaders warned Iran on Friday against advancing its nuclear enrichment program and said they would be ready to enforce new measures if Tehran were to transfer ballistic missiles to Russia, according to a draft communique.
“We urge Tehran to cease and
reverse nuclear escalations, and stop the continuing uranium enrichment
activities that have no credible civilian justifications,” the statement seen
by our correspondent said.
Iran has rapidly installed
extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at its Fordow site and begun setting up
others, a UN nuclear watchdog report said on Thursday.
Iran is now enriching uranium
to up to 60 percent purity, close to the 90 percent of weapons grade, and has
enough material enriched to that level, if enriched further, for three nuclear
weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick.
“Iran must engage in serious
dialogue and provide convincing assurances that its nuclear program is
exclusively peaceful, in full cooperation and compliance with the IAEA’s
monitoring and verification mechanism, including the Board of Governors’
resolution of 5 June,” the G7 said.
Iran says its nuclear program
is solely for peaceful purposes.
The leaders also warned Iran
about concluding a deal to send ballistic missiles to Russia that would help it
in its war against Ukraine, saying they were prepared to respond with
significant measures if it were to happen.
“We call on Iran to stop
assisting Russia’s war in Ukraine and not to transfer ballistic missiles and
related technology, as this would represent a substantive material escalation
and a direct threat to European security,” they said.
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