World leaders argue over the damage to Iranian nuclear sites. But where is enriched uranium?

US President Donald Trump spent most of them from Wednesday and refuted on Thursday morning early on refuting reports from his defense intelligence agency that the American bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities at the end of last week was only little harm, and that the Iranians managed to transfer uranium from sites before strikes.

“Nothing has been removed from the (elbow),” Trump wrote on Thursday, adding, “It will take a long and very dangerous time, very heavy and difficult to move!”

This was followed by a statement late on Wednesday, John Ratcliffe, who said “reliable intelligence”, showing Iran’s nuclear sites in Natanz, Forde and Safhahan severely damaged and that it would take years – not months – to rebuild many major facilities.

The Ratcliffe statement, which he said, was partially dependent on a new intelligence from a “historically and accurately reliable source”, is the last drop of information aimed at strengthening the American argument that air strikes had paralyzed Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon.

In a direct speech to the nation on Saturday, following the direct strikes, Trump announced that the main nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran were “completely blurring completely”.

In the tumultuous confusing debate about the extent of damage to nuclear sites, a bigger question is on the horizon: Where is the enriched uranium in Iran now?

Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, director of a program at the Vienna Center for Dispution and Non -spread, says it is not clear from Iran 400 kilograms of enriched uranium by 60 percent.

““We don’t really know where this article,” she told CBC News via Zoom. Did some of them survive the attacks? We do not know, and now, Iran does not provide that information. “

Iran, which recognizes the nuclear facilities “severely damaged”, claims that it has transferred enriched uranium before the US -weekends.

Satellite images show that on June 19, 16 charging trucks They were at the entrance to the nuclear site buried deeply. Three days later, in the early hours of Sunday morning, it was struck with multiple bombs, called huge ammunition breakthroughs, each weighing 13,000 kilograms.

With the exception of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Before the United States participated directly in the strikes, Israel says it was targeting the military and nuclear infrastructure in Iran, as well as security and scientists, since June 13.

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (International Atomic Energy Agency), says Iran told the United Nations nuclear agency that it had taken special measures to protect its stock.

Jarusi asked who of Iran to allow the IAEA inspectors, but on Wednesday, parliament voted in the country to suspend cooperation with the United Nations agency. This step was approved by the country Those Council On Thursday, it will be presented to President Masoud Bezichane for the final certification. The draft law will prevent inspectors from accessing sites until specific conditions are met.

Iran is still a member of the Non -Proliferation Treaty, and it is a law required to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency; If not, it can be found in violating its obligations. But Mukhatzhanova says that there is a little that the International Atomic Energy Agency can do to force Iran for Iran’s cooperation.

The United Nations Security Council can take a measure, but Iran has already been punished, and Russia, which has a strategic partnership with Tehran, has a veto.

“So what is the plan, then – that Israel and perhaps the United States have to bomb Iran periodically? This is not very sustainable,” said Makhazanova.

When he was asked on Wednesday if he would move to the strike again if Iran re -building its nuclear enrichment program, Trump replied, “Certainly.”

Mukhatzhanova says that the joint comprehensive action plan (JCPOA) signed in 2013 – known as the Iranian nuclear deal – has not been applied properly, there is no clear picture of Iran’s central mutation store.

The deal was enacted during the era of US President Barack Obama, but US President Donald Trump described it as “terrible” and “unilaterally” and withdrew from it during his first term in his position.

“Very sensitive position now”

Hours before Israel started its air strikes on Iran in mid -June, Tehran said it was built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment site. The announcement came after the International Atomic Energy Agency Iran for control For her failure to comply with the obligations of non -spread and provide cooperation “less than a disease.”

Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency had no opportunity to go to the new enrichment site in Iran. Mukhatzhanova says it is unclear whether Iran has central expelling devices that can be installed and start working elsewhere.

“It will not take a long time to enrich 60 percent (uranium) to 90 percent, which is considered at the level of weapons,” she said. “It’s a very sensitive situation now.”

Some Iranian media have been seized on the coverage of A. leak The first American intelligence assessment that seemed to contradict Trump’s allegations that the Fordow nuclear site was blurred.

One of the outlets said that “Trump’s lie had appeared,” while another said that this had become a big scandal for him.

In a statement published in X on Thursday, the director of national intelligence at TULSI GABBARD supported Trump’s claims, saying that Iran’s three nuclear facilities were destroyed and will take years to rebuild.

“A great loss of capacity”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi and Muhammad Islami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization, said that Iran would revive its nuclear program.

Joseph Rodgers, deputy director and colleague of the project on nuclear issues at the center for strategic and international studies in the United States, said that it is “unclear”, what is the effect of Israeli -American strikes on “the base of knowledge in the scientific leadership in Iran.”

“Israel has targeted many major leaders in the nuclear program, as well as military programs, and this represents a great loss of capabilities.”

A comprehensive evaluation conducted International Science and Security InstituteWho analyzed the satellite images of the attacks, concluded that it would be a long time before Iran came anywhere “near the ability” that it had previously.

However, the report also said that Iran can use materials and parts that have not been destroyed to produce uranium at the level of weapons.

Laura Holgate, a former American ambassador at the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CBC News Network on Wednesday that if Iran was able to produce enriched uranium, it may take only weeks until there is enough for a nuclear weapon.

But her ability to put this on the missile is not well understood, and that will be in a completely different schedule.

“I am definitely more worried than I was a week ago. This (fertilized uranium) is not in a normal position, so there is a possibility to be stolen or lost in one way or another,” said Holgit. “More worried … is the possibility of losing the International Atomic Energy Agency to reach the Iranian program.”

Mukhatzhanova says that the Israeli -American action may end up reflecting its intended effect.

The attacks “may convince … political elites in Iran, the leadership, which must have nuclear weapons at all.”