The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says U.S. strikes on Iran did not fully cripple its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart uranium enrichment in months.
Rafael Grossi’s comments contradict President Donald Trump’s claims that the U.S. set Iran’s ambitions back by decades, and appear to support an early assessment from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, which suggests the strikes did not destroy the core components of Tehran’s nuclear program.
While the final military and intelligence assessment has yet to come, Trump has repeatedly claimed to have “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear sites.
