(Guardian-UK) Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a leading cleric who often leads Friday prayers in Tehran, told a group of Revolutionary Guard commanders in Iran's Kurdistan province that Iran had the expertise to enrich uranium to levels required for a bomb. "[We] can enrich uranium at 5% or 20%, as well as 40% to 50%, and even 90%." Khatami attacked the government of president Hassan Rouhani for trying to establish formal diplomatic relations with the U.S. and for trying to eliminate the slogan of "Death to America" from use at official rallies.
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