SpaceWar.com reports: “Iran likely can resume uranium enrichment to make a nuclear bomb in a few months, despite damage to nuclear facilities by United States and Israel airstrikes, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog chief said.
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said there was a ‘very serious level of damage’ to the nuclear facilities during an interview with CBS News on Saturday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said U.S. airstrikes on June 21 ‘obliterated’ the facilities, including Fordo, which is underground in a mountain. Initial intelligence assessments suggested that the strikes were successful but set back Iran’s program by months — not years.
‘It can be, you know, described in different ways, but it’s clear that what happened in particular in Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan, where Iran used to have and still has, to some degree, capabilities in terms of treatment, conversion and enrichment of uranium have been destroyed to an important degree,’ Grossi said. ‘Some is still standing. So there is, of course, an important setback in terms of those of those capabilities.’…”
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