Iran could start enriching uranium for bomb within months, UN nuclear chief says

伊朗可能在几个月内开始为制造炸弹而浓缩铀,联合国原子能机构负责人表示。

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2025-06-29

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Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again - for a possible bomb - in "a matter of months", Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said. In an interview with CBS news, Mr Grossi also said the US strikes on three Iranian sites last weekend had caused severe but "not total" damage, contradicting President Trump's claim that Iran's nuclear facilities were "totally obliterated". Also on the programme: one of Hong Kong's last remaining pro-democracy groups, the League of Social Democrats, has announced that it will disband; and we hear from The Who's Pete Townsend about the ballet version of the group's Quadrophenia album and film. (Photo: IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Vienna, Austria on 25 June, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Lisa Leutner)
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  • Hello, welcome to the programme.

  • This is News Hour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm Paul Henley.

  • The chief of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi,

  • has said that Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again in a matter of months for a possible bomb.

  • In an interview with the BBC's US partner CBS News,

  • he says there is severe damage to Iran's nuclear sites after last weekend's strikes by American stealth bombers,

  • but not total damage.

  • Iran had a very vast, ambitious program, and part of it may still be there.

  • And if not, there is also the self-evident truth that the knowledge is there.

  • The industrial capacity is there.

  • Iran is... very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology, as is obvious.

  • Military operations or not,

  • you are not going to solve this in a definitive way militarily.

  • Mr Grassi's time frame contrasts with the comments from Donald Trump,

  • who says Iran's nuclear programme has been obliterated,

  • and the CIA, which says it will take years to rebuild.

  • Let's look at reaction now in Israel.

  • Amir Oran writes for various publications on national security and politics in Israel.