Video-Iran begins uranium enrichment at Fordo site

Enriching uranium at the Fordo site.
Iran has begun uranium enrichment at the Fordo site, over two years after the facility, near the city of Qom, was declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It is producing uranium enriched up to 20 percent to be used at Tehran reactor that makes medical radioisotopes for cancer patients.
Iran says all activities at the nuclear site, are under the permanent supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, an issue approved by the agency.
The news drew reactions especially from western countries.
`U.S. State Department has said the enrichment represented “a further escalation” of Iranian violations of United Nations agreements on its nuclear program, and called on Iran to suspend enrichment activities.
France also said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms” the production of enriched uranium at the Qom facility and is calling for additional sanctions of an “unprecedented severity” to be imposed on Iran.
Iran says it has the right to enrich uranium as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Iran’s all nuclear activities are under direct supervision of the IAEA. The US and some of its allies, have sanctioned Iran over alleged deviation in nuclear activities towards making weapons, a claim for which no evidence has yet been provided by the West.
Meanwhile the US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has recently said that Iran is not after gaining access to nuclear weapons.