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People said the intelligence suggested that Iran of Iran Advantages of 408 kg uranium At the time of the attack last weekend, the enriched close -ups in weapons quality concentrated on Fordow, one of the two main enrichment locations.
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The results question the claim of US President Donald Trump that the bomb attacks had “wiped out”. IranNuclear program.
In an obvious reference to Ford, Trump wrote on Thursday about his social platform of truth: “Not from the (the) facility became too long, too dangerous and very difficult to move!”
People said the EU governments were still waiting for a complete secret service report on the extent of the damage fordThe deep under a mountain near the Holy City of Qom was built, and a first report indicated “extensive damage but not full structural destruction”.
The Iranian officials have proposed that the enriched uranium supply was moved before the bomb attack on the work in the USA that came to the country after days of Israeli strikes.
The United States used bunker bombs on Sunday to attack Fordow and Natanz, the other main enrichment system of Iran. It fired cruise rockets in a third location Isfahan, which was used in the fuel conversion cycle and for storage.
Trump dismissed a preliminary American evaluation of the American secret services Matter of months.
The Israel Atomic Energy Commission said this week that it had investigated that US and Israeli strikes “had the ability of Iran to develop nuclear weapons after many years”.
However, experts have warned that Tehran, when Tehran keeps his stock of enriched uranium and set up in hidden locations in front, could still have the ability to produce the fissile material required for a weapon.
Rafael Grossi, General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Thursday that the Iranian nuclear program had “suffered enormous damage”, although he said that the claims about his complete destruction were exaggerated.
Iran insists that his program applies to peaceful civilian purposes.
Fordow was the main place to enrich uranium up to 60 percent purity, a small step of weapon quality. Experts said that the 408 -kg stock of uranium, which was enriched to 60 percent, was kept in Ford, Natanz and Isfahan before Israel started his war against Iran on June 13.
The overall Iranian stock of enriched uranium was more than 8,400 kg, but most of which was enriched at low levels.
Satellite images from Ford after the bomb attack on Sunday show that tunnel inputs are apparently sealed with earth and holes, which may be the entry points of the 30,000 pound-precision bunker in the United States. Access roads also appear damaged.
Grossi said this week that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent a letter to the IAEO on June 13 that Iran “would take special measures to protect our nuclear equipment and materials”.
Grossi said the inspectors of the UN Nuclear Watchdogs that have started the plants since Israel should return to the locations in order to “take into account the inventory of uranium, including the 408 kg up to 60 percent”.
The United States had made an unqual information about the remaining nuclear skills of Iran available after the strikes and held back clear guidelines about how it plans to provide future relationships with Tehran, said three civil servants about the discussions.
The EU policy towards Tehran was until a new initiative from Washington in the search for a diplomatic solution for the nuclear crisis.
Before the war, the Trump administration had indirect negotiations with Tehran in the hope of containing its nuclear activities.
Trump said on Wednesday that Washington would speak to Tehran next week, but he also suggested that after the strikes against the nuclear plants of Iran.
“It is completely unpredictable,” said one of the people. “We don’t do anything at the moment.”
