Iran Steps Up Enrichment With New Site After Nuclear Censure

Iran said it will inaugurate a new uranium-enrichment facility in response to a decision by the United Nations atomic watchdog to censure the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, deepening the oil-rich nation’s crisis with the US and Israel.

The new site has been developed at an unspecified, secure location, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said Thursday in a statement. Its opening will be accompanied with upgraded enrichment technologies at its existing site in Fordow, built into the side of a mountain 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Tehran. Other measures will be announced later, it said, without elaborating.