IAEA warns: Iran could resume nuclear programme within months
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Iran’s 60% enriched uranium could yield nine nuclear bombs if refined
IAEA chief Grossi warns Iran could restart enrichment within months
Key nuclear sites were hit, but some remain operational after attacks
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By Staff Writer
Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says Iran Iran may be able to restart uranium enrichment in a matter of months despite a wave of attacks by the United States and Israel.
He was particularly concerned about Iran’s stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium, just below weapons grade, Al Jazeera reports.
Days after US President Donald Trump insisted this month’s attacks had set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back “by decades”, Grossi said at the weekend that while key facilities had been hit, some are “still standing”.
He is quoted as saying: “They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium.” It could even be sooner, he added.
Grossi raised concerns over Iran’s stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium, which could theoretically produce more than nine nuclear bombs if refined further.
He acknowledged that the IAEA did not know whether this stockpile was moved before the bombings or partially destroyed. “There has to be, at some point, a clarification,” he said.
This article was first published by DailyFriend and is republished with permission