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Key Points
  • IAEA chief Grossi says Iran retains irreversible nuclear knowledge and capabilities.
  • Iran could resume uranium enrichment within months despite recent US-led strikes.
  • Uncertainty remains over the location of Iran’s enriched uranium stock after the attacks.
Iran could be producing enriched uranium in a few months, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog Rafael Grossi was quoted as saying, raising doubts about how effective US strikes to destroy Tehran’s nuclear program have been.
US officials have stated that their strikes obliterated key nuclear sites in Iran, although US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would consider bombing Iran again if Tehran is enriching uranium to worrisome levels.
“The capacities they have are there. They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that,” Grossi told CBS News in an interview.

“Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there,” he mentioned, based on the transcript of an interview on “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan set to broadcast on Sunday (local time).

Saying it wanted to remove any chance of Tehran developing nuclear weapons, Israel launched attacks on Iran earlier this month, igniting a 12-day air war that the US eventually joined.
Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only.
Grossi, who heads the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, said the strikes on sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan had significantly set back Iran’s ability to convert and enrich uranium.

However, Western powers emphasize that Iran’s nuclear advancements grant it an irreversible gain in knowledge, indicating that although losing experts or facilities might slow down progress, the advances are lasting.

“Iran is a very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology,” Grossi said. “So you cannot disinvent this. You cannot undo the knowledge that you have or the capacities that you have.”
Grossi was also asked about reports of Iran moving its stock of highly enriched uranium in the run-up to the US strikes and said it was not clear where that material was.
“So some could have been destroyed as part of the attack, but some could have been moved,” he said.

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