International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi said on Tuesday that his agency does not know the whereabouts of Iran’s enriched uranium stash, which could include up to 900 pounds of near-weapons-grade material.
Three days before the U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Grossi said Iran was building a vast new enrichment complex at Isfahan. Much of Iran’s existing stockpile could have been transferred there, although he said it was impossible to know for certain without on-site inspections.
“There was an announcement, quite coincidentally, on the eve of the start of the military operation by Israel of a new enrichment facility in Isfahan, precisely, that we were going to be inspecting immediately,” Grossi said last Thursday, “but this
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