(Institute for Science and International Security) David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Frank Pabian - Based on documents in the Iran Nuclear Archive, seized by Israel in 2018, Iran created the Shahid Mahallati Uranium Metals Workshop near Tehran to research and develop uranium metallurgy related to building nuclear weapons. The facility was capable of making the first cores of weapon-grade uranium. Iran should declare this site to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and allow its inspection, since the facility was designed and built to handle nuclear material subject to safeguards under Iran's comprehensive safeguards agreement.
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