For his part, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) estimated that Iran had technical capacities to start again to enrich uranium in “a few months”.
The Iranian nuclear program has been delayed by about two years by the American strikes by Donald Trump, according to American intelligence, said the Pentagon on Wednesday.
“We have delayed their program from at least one to least one to two years, this is what the ministry’s intelligence services evaluate” Defense, said Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. “We think it’s probably closer to two years”he added.
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Since the American bombings against the nuclear sites of Fordo, Natanz and Ispahan about ten days ago, in support of the Israeli offensive, the question of their efficiency remains uncertain. Donald Trump repeats that the Tehran nuclear program has been “Anniéanti” or delayed “Several decades”.
“Decimating, annihilating, destroying”
His Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth boasted in late June“A decisive military action” Who “Created the conditions to end war” Between Israel and Iran. “By decimating, annihilating, destroying – choose the word – Iranian nuclear capacities”he had hammered.
But a first top secret preliminary report of American intelligence, which the American press reported last week, established that the strikes against Iran had only slowed down its nuclear program by a few months, without nevertheless destroying it completely.
Iran has just rejected a request from the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), Rafael Grossi, visiting its bombed nuclear installations, in order to be able to establish what happened to its uranium stock enriched at a level close to the design threshold of an atomic bomb. Rafael Grossi estimated that Iran had technical capacities to start enriching uranium from here “A few months”.
