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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

'UN nuke watchdog: Iran program ‘set back significantly’ by strikes'

 By Steven Nelson

International Atomic Energy Agency director Rafael Grossi said Tuesday that Iran's nuclear program is starkly degraded — but that he's unsure of the whereabouts of nearly 900 pounds of enriched uranium.

"The Iranian nuclear program has been set back significantly," Grossi told Fox News's Martha MacCallum in an interview. "We have to see what they want to do... Are they going to reconstruct what they have?"

"It is clear that there is one Iran before June 13, nuclear Iran, and one now, and it's night and day," added the Argentine diplomat.

Rescue teams on site following an attack from Iran in Be'er Sheva, Israel
Israeli rescue teams operate at the scene of a missile strike on a residential area in Be'er Sheva, Israel.ZUMAPRESS.com

"We do not have information about the whereabouts" of stockpiles of uranium that may have been removed from the three sites that the US military attacked Saturday and which sustained "a very important degree of damage," Grossi also noted.

"Iran officially told me, 'We are going to be taking protective measures,' which may or may not include moving around this material," he said.

That uranium is believed to be enriched to 60% purity, which the watchdog noted is less than the 90% required for nuclear weapons.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/23/world-news/us-strikes-iran-6-23-25/

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