(1) In exchange the P5+1 wanted Iran to stop enriching uranium to 19.75% (medium enriched uranium), export all such material, halt operations at the Fordo plant and allow IAEA inspectors to visit sensitive military sites.
(2) Two other unresolved issues are Iran’s Fordo underground enrichment site and the nearly built Arak nuclear reactor .
(3) The Kayhan, which is close to Iran's ruling clerics, said engineers had begun injecting uranium gas into sophisticated centrifuges at the Fordo facility near the city of Qom.
(4) In defiance of the western pressure, Iran this week began uranium enrichment at Fordo facility, near the holy city of Qom, in an underground, bunker-like site built for protection against possible air strikes.
(5) He said the Fordo facility was built underground because of the threat of attack by Israel and the US.
(6) Netanyahu asserted that Iran must halt all uranium enrichment, remove enriched uranium from the country, dismantle the Fordo nuclear plant and stop "the plutonium track" to a nuclear weapon.
(7) The US, along with Britain, France and Germany, claims that discovery of the Fordo site puts Iran in breach of its international treaty obligations.
(8) The IAEA sent inspectors to the Fordo site late last month but today indicated it is to seek clarification on several issues, in particular how long the Fordo site had been planned.
(9) The Federation of American Scientists, which tracks nuclear proliferation, said today: "Of course, there is the question of whether Fordo is simply the only 'secret' facility that we know about.
(10) The US and its five allies in the talks want to repurpose Fordo to a non-enrichment function because it is believed impervious to a military attack from the air.
(11) Abbasi was quoted as saying: "The Fordo facility, like Natanz, has been designed and built underground.
(12) One diplomat suggested that Washington may be emphasising the issue in order to satisfy the Israelis but that the group may be prepared to settle for an agreement to freeze the number of centrifuges at Fordo, which are believed to be too few to produce weapons-grade uranium at a pace sufficient to develop a bomb in the foreseeable future.
(13) Iran says enrichment to nearly 20% will be carried out at Fordo.
(14) Built next to a military complex, Fordo was long kept secret and only acknowledged by Iran after it was identified by western intelligence agencies in September 2009.
(15) Iran has said it will not close the Fordo facility nor surrender enriched uranium.
(16) It is not clear that Washington can carry all of the P5+1 in pressing the demand for Fordo to be dismantled, particularly with Russia and China prepared to give Tehran room for manoeuvre.
(17) Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, made little mention of the Fordo facility itself and instead dwelled on the uranium on Sunday.
(18) The International Atomic Energy Agency, in a report published today, said the previously secret site at Fordo was in "an advanced state of construction" and was scheduled to start up in 2011.
(19) Diplomats say Iran will be pressed by the permanent UN security council members plus Germany, known as the P5+1, to shut its underground nuclear facility at Fordo, to stop enriching uranium to 20%, and to hand over the estimated 100kg of uranium already enriched to that level.
(20) Iran's nuclear chief, Fereidoun Abbasi, said on Saturday that his country would soon begin enrichment at Fordo.
Forgo
Definition:
(v. i.) To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, there is only a limited understanding of the factors influencing physicians' decisions to forgo or maintain life-sustaining treatments when caring for dying patients.
(2) NHS officials told the Guardian that any individual local council that chose not to engage with NHS partners would forgo the opportunity to join up social care and health services more effectively, but that would be their choice.
(3) The wheels are falling off because the Chinese economy is slowing and commodity prices are falling and because the parliamentary gridlock means governments have been unable to do anything about it.” Richardson joined a growing push for the government to consider savings from the revenue the government forgoes due to the generous treatment of superannuation savings – $30bn in 2014-15 and forecast to rise to close to $50bn in 2017-18.
(4) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(5) Many patients, especially those who are elderly and who have chronic medical illnesses, choose to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in case of cardiac arrest.
(6) If the patient is incapable of expressing a preference, the decision to forgo resuscitation may be made by the patient's family or other surrogate decision maker.
(7) Increasing costs would cause “unnecessary harm” and lower high standards of care, as many patients would choose to forgo important tests, Harrison said.
(8) (In the end, Serco paid back £68.5m for the tagging debacle, and agreed to forgo any future profits on its prisoner escort contract.
(9) He has already dispatched 2,500 head office staff to work in its stores for one day a fortnight in the runup to Christmas, and revealed that, when possible, he is forgoing his chauffeur and taking public transport.
(10) Each year Thiel pays a small group of teenagers to forgo or quit university and start their own business.
(11) The BBC has announced that most managers will not receive a bonus this year, and ITV executives agreed to forgo part of their performance-related payments last week.
(12) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
(13) "We could lose a generation of potential, as more young Americans are forced to forgo college dreams or the chance to train for the jobs of the future," Obama said in the five-minute address.
(14) In the health care setting, team members forgo their personal needs to focus on the needs of patients.
(15) "We listened to our customers in December and so decided to forgo certain deductions which would make us liable to pay £10m in corporation tax this year and a further £10m in 2014.
(16) They forgo electricity or running water in favour of old-fashioned pleasures: you drift off in front of a log fire and awake to birdsong.
(17) Given the possibility that this surveillance could perhaps prevent deaths in the form of terrorist attacks, most Americans are willing to forgo some abstract notion of privacy in favor of the more concrete benefits of security.
(18) Given the unique and challenging Arctic environment and industry’s declining interest in the area, forgoing lease sales in the Arctic is the right path forward.” The move, announced as part of the federal government’s land and ocean leasing program that will run from 2017 to 2022, has been cheered by environmentalists who called for the Arctic to be put off limits for drilling to help slow climate change and avoid a catastrophic oil spill.
(19) The patient information that was collected included age and sex, diagnoses, mental status, location in the hospital length of hospital stay, method of payment, the timing of the first decision to forgo treatment, and the range and sequence of interventions forgone.
(20) As we have seen all too often in international emergency response operations, the stakes are too high to forgo systems of accountability.