In a new confidential report by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, the body said it had picked up samples of uranium during a check at the Fordow facility on 22 January, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The UN report said Iran claimed in a letter that the levels were down to “unintended fluctuations” from its usual enrichment levels.
Weapons-grade uranium is made from around 90 percent enriched uranium.
Iran acknowledged the report through its state media channel Nour News, a publication overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Nour News wrote on Twitter last week: “It will be clear soon that the IAEA surprising report of discovering 84 percent enriched uranium particles in Iran’s enrichment facilities was an inspector’s error or was a deliberate action to create political atmospheres against Iran on the eve of the meeting of” the IAEA board.”
The UN body is set to meet on March 6 in Vienna.
