Grossi’s implicit admission that Iran’s nuclear facilities were not destroyed.
According to the Guardian, Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who previously paved the way for the US and Israeli aggression against Iran by issuing a resolution against Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program, claimed that Tehran would be able to enrich uranium within a few months.
Grossi, implicitly acknowledging that no significant damage had been caused to Iran’s nuclear facilities after the US aggression, claimed, “You know, I believe that they could launch several centrifuge cascades capable of producing enriched uranium within a few months or less.”
In response to the question of whether Tehran had been able to transfer and move all 408.6 kilograms of its highly enriched uranium before the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the director general of the agency claimed, “We do not know the possible location of this material. So it is possible that some of it was destroyed as a result of the attack, and it is possible that some of it was moved.” So at some point, there needs to be some clarity.
In a confidential report released on June 1, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) repeated its claims that Iran has accumulated “weapons-grade” enriched uranium and called for Tehran to cooperate fully and effectively with the agency. The report came at a critical time, coinciding with negotiations between Tehran and Washington over Iran’s nuclear program. The report claimed that Iran had enriched 408.6 kilograms of 60 percent uranium as of May 17, an increase of 133.8 kilograms since the agency’s last report in February.
“We have to be in a position to identify what’s there and confirm where it is and what happened,” he said.
In a separate interview with Fox News, US President Donald Trump said he believed Iran’s uranium stockpile had not been moved. “It’s very difficult, and we didn’t give much warning,” he said. They didn’t transfer anything.