The centrifuges at Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility “have suffered a great deal,” International Atomic Energy Agency Director Rafael Grossi said Thursday.
“Given the scale and capacity of the military means used, we can deduce that the centrifuges have suffered a great deal, if [they] have not been destroyed,” Grossi said, originally in French.
A poster of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is displayed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hold a news conference at the Pentagon, June 26, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.
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When asked if it’s possible that some of the technology or centrifuges at Fordo survived, are still operational or have been moved, Grossi said “it’s a hypothesis,” that can’t be ruled out.
Grossi said while he understands the logic behind Israel and the U.S.’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, he said he believed “there was a diplomatic path.” Grossi acknowledged Iran was not cooperating in the U.S.-Iran negotiations before military intervention was taken.
“I could never say the solution was [using the] military. I’m not criticizing. It’s not my position to do so,” Grossi said. “Until the day military action was triggered, Iran was not cooperating in the necessary way.”
-ABC News’ Leontine Gallois, Cindy Smith and Chris Boccia
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