Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi attends the joint meeting of the European Parliament.
Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi attends the joint meeting of the European Parliament.
  • A UN nuclear watchdog has found uranium enriched to 83.7% purity at Iran's nuclear plants.
  • That's less than 7% short of the 90% purity needed to create nuclear weapons.
  • The new findings come as Iran continually breaches its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Uranium found at an Iranian nuclear facility was enriched almost to the point where it can be used to make bombs, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said.