International Atomic Energy Chief Gives Assessment of Fordow Damage, Warns Iran's Behavior Could Cause 'New Crisis'

International Atomic Energy Chief Gives Assessment of Fordow Damage, Warns Iran’s Behavior Could Cause ‘New Crisis’


The head of the United Nations atomic energy agency assessed on Thursday that the U.S. and Israeli strikes caused “enormous damage” to Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Rafael Grossi further warned that Iran’s threat not to work with the International Atomic Energy Agency to continue to allow inspections could create a “new crisis,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

“I think that annihilated is too much. But it has suffered enormous damage,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said when asked if Iran’s nuclear program had been wiped out in an interview with a French radio network. “There is very, very, very considerable damage.”

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He added that the centrifuges at the Fordow site are no longer operational, given the size of the strike and the equipment’s

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