UN Has Lost Track of Iran’s Near Bomb Grade Uranium - Watchdog Chief Sounds Alarm
June 19, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe United Nations nuclear watchdog said the location of Iran’s near-bomb-grade stockpile of enriched uranium cannot currently be verified, as Israel’s ongoing military assault is preventing inspectors from doing their work.
Iran’s 409 kilograms (902 pounds) of highly-enriched uranium — enough to produce 10 nuclear warheads — should theoretically be secured under an International Atomic Energy Agency seal at an underground facility at Isfahan. But IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said Wednesday its whereabouts are now unclear, given Tehran warned him the stockpile could be moved in the event of an Israeli attack.
“I’m not so sure,” Grossi told Bloomberg Television when asked about the uranium. “In a time of war, all nuclear sites are closed. No inspections, no normal activity can take place.”
The IAEA chief’s comments highlight one of the primary dilemmas of attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. While the Israeli bombardment has undoubtedly affected the country’s ability to produce new volumes of enriched uranium, the world risks losing track of existing inventories that could quite quickly be further enriched to weapons grade.
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