Likely all machines at Iran's main enrichment plant 'severely damaged', IAEA chief says
IRAN, JUN 20 – IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi confirmed severe damage to Natanz centrifuges from Israeli airstrikes but found no proof of an active nuclear weapons program, urging restraint and diplomacy.
- IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated there is no proof that Iran is actively working toward a nuclear weapon as of recent assessments.
- This position follows long-standing US intelligence findings that Iran has not pursued nuclear weapons for over 20 years despite Israeli claims to the contrary.
- Israel initiated a military campaign targeting Iran's nuclear sites, including Natanz, but Grossi reported the strikes only damaged above-ground facilities and failed to destroy underground centrifuges.
- The IAEA emphasized that while Iran has enriched uranium up to 60%, it has not reached weapons-grade levels of 90%, and inspectors cannot currently verify Iran's uranium stockpile locations due to ongoing conflict.
- Experts warn that military attacks risk undermining nonproliferation efforts and could provoke Iran to withdraw from treaties or accelerate weaponization, increasing regional and global security risks.
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UN nuclear chief reports that Iran has material to build bombs, but has no plan to do so
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has stated that Iran possesses enough enriched uranium to potentially produce several nuclear warheads, but there is no evidence of an active plan to build nuclear weapons. This assessment comes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, with Israel conducting airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities […]
Grossi said that there is no evidence. But Trump: "Sometimes they will have it." It was he who came out of the agreement on the control of the nuclear industry of the ayatollahs, who continued to comply with the instructions of the Agency. Until the day before the attack
The director general of the UN agency said in an interview with THE NATION that his agency’s resolution is being used by Iran and Israel and advocated a negotiated solution; he warned that the theocratic regime “is not far away” from developing a nuclear bomb.
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