IAEA Head Warns Iran Could Resume Uranium Enrichment
(MENAFN) In the aftermath of recent US assaults on Iran’s nuclear installations, Iran is expected to restart enriched uranium production “in a matter of months,” according to Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
“They can have … in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that,” Grossi stated during an interview published on Saturday by the US-based news agency.
Grossi explained that although the US attacks caused “severe damage, but it's not total damage,” Iran still possesses “the capacities there, industrial and technological capacities. So if they so wish, they will be able to start doing this again.”
On June 22, the United States deployed six bunker-buster bombs targeting the Fordo nuclear site and conducted dozens of cruise missile strikes on facilities in Natanz and Isfahan as part of its offensive against Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
In the wake of these operations, the Trump administration pushed back against claims suggesting Iran’s nuclear program was merely delayed by a few months rather than being “obliterated,” as initially asserted by the US government.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, admitted that the recent US and Israeli airstrikes inflicted “excessive and serious” damage on the country’s nuclear infrastructure.
Grossi further noted: “Iran had a very vast ambitious program, and part of it may still be there, and if not, there is also the self-evident truth that the knowledge is there.
The industrial capacity is there. Iran is a very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology, as is obvious. So you cannot disinvent this.”
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