Russia vows to refill Iran's uranium stocks, as Netanyahu warns that enriched supply was unscathed during the war

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Moscow's top diplomat said Russia is ready to refill Iran's depleted uranium stocks — as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Tehran's enriched atomic supply avoided harm during the 12-day war.
Speaking at the BRICS summit in Rio on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would remain a committed ally to bolster Iran's nuclear program, which was bombarded by the US and Israel last month, Russian-state outlet TASS reported.
'Russia has technological solutions for uranium depletion and is ready to work with Iran in this field,' Lavrov said.
3 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow is prepared to refill Iran's depleted uranium stocks and take charge of its enriched supply
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3 Iran's Fordow fuel enrichment plant was the target of US airstrikes targeting Tehran's nuclear program.
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'We have technological capacities and we are ready to offer them, taking the excess of overly enriched uranium and returning the power-generation-grade uranium to the Islamic Republic and its nuclear facilities,' he added.
Prior to Israel's assault against Iran's nuclear program on June 13, the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) watchdog group warned that Tehran had nearly 900-pounds of uranium enriched at 60%, approaching the 90% needed to develop nukes.
Russia had proposed to take ownership of the enriched uranium to help develop a civilian nuclear energy program to avoid war, a deal that never went through as Israel launched its attack two days later.
The supply has since gone missing, with the IAEA currently barred from re-entering Iran to inspect its nuclear facilities and supplies.
3 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Iran's enriched uranium supply avoided damage during the 12-day war.
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Despite US officials claiming that the enriched supply had been buried as a result of the airstrikes, Netanyahu revealed Tuesday that the supply had managed to survive the 12 days of war.
'The one thing that we didn't deal with that we knew we didn't deal with was the enriched uranium,' he told Fox Business during his stay in Washington.
'So it has to be made clear to them, and I think it has been, that they don't get this enriched uranium,' Netanyahu added.
The prime minister said the supply needed to be located and dealt with to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions, warning that the US and Israel could mount multiple more assaults on Tehran to get the job done.
'I think the Iranians understand that what the US and Israel did once, we could do twice, and thrice,' he said.