After a large-scale US attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, more than 400 kilograms of potentially enriched uranium disappeared, the IAEA is calling for an urgent inspection. This is reported by Fox News.
Thus, the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, says that he has set himself the goal of finding the missing uranium - according to him, Iranian officials probably took the uranium out, protecting it from possible attacks.
"We have no information about its location," Grossi said.
He also said that despite the fact that, according to his information, Iranian uranium is enriched to 60%, and not to 90%, which is needed to create nuclear weapons, it still needs to be found.
"My duty is to account for every gram of uranium that exists in Iran and in any other country. My job is to try to find out where these materials are located, because Iran is obliged to report on all the materials that it has," he said.
The head of the IAEA said that the nuclear facility in Natanz has received "very serious damage" in one of the centrifuge halls where uranium was enriched. The facility in Isfahan suffered severe damage.
As we will recall, on June 22, US President Donald Trump said that US troops had struck Iran's nuclear facilities.
Trump later said that as a result of the strikes, the uranium enrichment facilities "were completely and irreversibly destroyed."
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, CNN announced, citing US officials who had read the preliminary US intelligence assessment, that the US army's strikes on Iran did not lead to the destruction of the main components of the nuclear program. It was claimed that Tehran's progress on the issue of creating nuclear weapons was likely set back only a few months.
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