Iran’s nuclear capabilities suffered “serious damage” last week United States Aerial Attacks But not “total damage”, said the man in charge of the world’s world nuclear watchman, the International Agency of Atomic Energy. “It cannot be said that everything has disappeared and there is nothing.”
“It is clear that there have been serious damage, but they are not total damage, first,” said AIEA General Manager Rafael Mariano Grossi “He faces the nation with Margaret Brennan.” “And secondly, Iran has the capacities there; industrial and technological capacities. So if they wish, they will be able to start doing it again.”
The United States launched three strikes at Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 21, after more than a week of Israeli attacks, than President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. he said had “Oblined” Iran’s nuclear installations.
But Grossi’s comments seemed to support an early evaluation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (Day), which suggested that the strikes had only Set the Iran Nuclear Program by months. The Trump administration has rejected the day evaluation as a “low confidence”, and Hegseth and other officials passed on Thursday after the media reported a “filtered” report.
In an informative session on Thursday, journalists questioned Hegseth repeatedly as to whether Iran had moved his enriched uranium stocks before the Israeli and North -American strikes began. The Secretary of Defense replied that “I was not aware of any intelligence I have reviewed, who says things were not where they were supposed to move or otherwise.”
On Sunday, Grossi said that Iran did not share that he was planning to move the enriched uranium, but at the same time “there was no physical time” for Iran to share this information.
The CEO of the AIEA also acknowledged that it is “logical to boast that when [Iran] advertise[s] They will take protection measures “to move the enriched uranium” could be part of it. “But he also emphasized that” it is so important, first, for Iran to allow our inspectors to continue their indispensable work as soon as possible. ”
Brennan pushed for Grossi that because it is unclear if uranium had moved and all centrifugues cannot be taken into account, there is an open question that Iran could still “make a sprint towards a bomb … if they wanted.” Grossi said he did not want to be an “alarmist”, but “we must be in a position to check, to confirm what is and where it is and what happened.”
“Iran had a very large ambitious program, and there may be a part, and if not, there is also the obvious truth that there is knowledge,” said Grossi. “ The industrial capacity is there. Iran is a very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology, of course. So it cannot be diverted. You cannot undo the knowledge you have or the capabilities you have.It is a huge country, it is not?
Grossi confirmed that its IAEA inspectors could never verify Iran’s claims that its nuclear program was only for peaceful purposes and that it did not try to develop a weapon.
“We did not see a program that aimed at this direction, but at the same time they did not answer very important questions that were pending,” said Grossi.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio He said in a statement on Saturday that there were calls to Iran for the arrest and execution of Grossi.
When asked about alleged threats against nuclear inspectors, Iran’s ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid IravaniHe said in a separate appearance on “Face the Nation” that Iran does not threaten nuclear inspectors, including grossi.
Nuclear inspectors “are in Iran,” said Iravani. He said they are in a “safe state”, but “they cannot have access to our place.”
Iravani also said that since Iran is a member of the Non -Proliferation Treaty (NPT), nuclear enrichment is our right and an inalienable right, and we want to implement this right. “
Iravani added that he did not think that the enrichment will never stop. “