Obama warns of new UNSC sanctions as Iran says it has produced its first batch of enriched uranium; Clinton to address the annual US-Islamic World Forum in Qatar
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    • Even as President Ahmadinejad announced that his country has produced its first package of highly enriched uranium, President Obama urged a “fourth round of UN sanctions” unless Iran stopped uranium enrichment and accepted international proposals. Obama stated that the US and five other world powers were “moving along fairly quickly” to further increase pressure on Tehran and that progress has been made in convincing Russia to overcome its resistance to imposing new sanctions on Iran.1

    IAEA chief Yukiya Amano in a one-page report meanwhile stated that Iran had informed agency inspectors that it had “begun to feed the (LEU) low-enriched uranium into one cascade (of uranium-enriching) centrifuges” at its plant in Natanz. He added that “currently only one cascade installed in (Natanz) is capable of enriching the LEU up to 20 percent.”2

    In other developments, US Secretary of State Clinton is to address the annual US-Islamic World Forum in Qatar. She is also expected to meet Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Forum. Turkey opposes the imposition of any further sanctions on Iran. She will also make her first-ever trip to Saudi Arabia.3

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