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NextImg:IAEA chief now saying Iran could begin enriching uranium in a “matter of months” – The Right Scoop

The head of the IAEA is now saying he believes Iran could be enriching uranium again within “a matter of months”, claiming they have the capacity to rebuild their centrifuges and could have a few up and running soon.

He also says that while there was severe damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities, it wasn’t total damage.

Via taxpayer funded Politico:

Iran could begin producing enriched uranium again in “a matter of months,” the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said, as damage caused by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities was “severe” but “not total.”

Iran clearly has the capacity to rebuild its nuclear facilities, Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the IAEA, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, said in an interview with CBS News.

“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 said in the interview, which was conducted on Friday and is set to be broadcast on Sunday.

Grossi’s assessment that damage to Iranian nuclear sites was “not total” contradicted U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran’s nuclear facilities were “totally obliterated.”

That’s the line Politico really wrote this article to say, that the IAEA’s assessment is now contradicting Trump’s assessment. Of course.

Grossi makes clear though they don’t have people on the ground in Iran, and he speculates that Iran COULD have moved enriched uranium from their nuclear plans before the bombings, but he doesn’t know where it could be:

Questions remain over whether Iran moved its stockpile of enriched uranium prior to the strikes, and whether centrifuges remain intact at nuclear sites.

Grossi said the IAEA is not present in Iran, and so unable to make any direct evaluations of the damage. But according to available intelligence reports, “it is clear that there has been severe damage, but it’s not total damage,” Grossi said.

Some stockpiles of enriched uranium could have been moved by Iran before the strikes, but the IAEA doesn’t “know where this material could be,” Grossi said.

“Some could have been destroyed as part of the attack, but some could have been moved. So there has to be at some point a clarification. If we don’t get that clarification, this will continue to be hanging, you know, over our heads as a potential problem,” he said, according to a transcript of the CBS interview.

Grossi said it is “clear” that Iran will be able to start building up its nuclear capacities again, and repeatedly emphasized the importance of getting “back to the table” with Iran to find a “long-lasting” and “diplomatic” solution.

“At some point, the IAEA will have to return. Although our job is not to assess damage, but to reestablish the knowledge of the activities that take place there, and the access to the material, which is very, very important,” he said.

Iran has banned the IAEA chief from its nuclear facilities and removed surveillance cameras from them, but Grossi said Iran is still party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which “implies that they have to work with the agency.”

He said that national laws in Iran are not incompatible with the IAEA’s inspection work, and it is “constructive” that Iran is not saying it is invoking internal measures to escape its obligations under the international treaty.