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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Patrick Wintour and Ashifa Kassam

Iran will probably be able to produce enriched uranium in ‘matter of months’, IAEA chief says

Rafael Grossi
Rafael Grossi: ‘Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there.’ Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA

The UN nuclear watchdog chief has said Iran could produce enriched uranium “in a matter of months”, in an interview in which he also contradicted Donald Trump’s assertion that US strikes had “completely and totally obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear facilities.

Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the US broadcaster CBS News that the strikes on three Iranian sites had clearly caused severe damage but “not total” damage.

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