PNN – Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, claimed on Wednesday that the UN nuclear watchdog had no knowledge of the status of Iran’s new enrichment facility in Isfahan, which is located in an underground nuclear complex.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Grossi, who is in Washington to attend a conference and negotiate with US government officials, said: This is an underground location, but we have not visited it yet.
Iran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of the new facility in June, and Grossi said his inspectors were due to visit Isfahan later that month, but were forced to cancel the visit after it was attacked during the 12-day war.
Grossi said that since inspectors were forced to cancel their visit, the agency does not know “whether this is simply an empty hall” or whether it hosts concrete platforms awaiting the installation of centrifuges, or whether some of the centrifuges have been installed.
“There are many questions that we will only answer when we can return.”
Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that a missile hit an area near the Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday evening, but caused no damage or casualties.
The UN nuclear watchdog confirmed on March 3 that the entrances to Iran’s previously bombed underground uranium enrichment facility in Natanz had been targeted in US and Israeli military strikes on the country.