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Iran’s nuclear capabilities suffered a “severe damage” last week US Air attacks. UU. But no “total damage,” said the man in charge of the world’s world nuclear surveillance agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency. “One cannot say that everything has disappeared and that there is nothing there.”

“It is clear that there have been serious damage, but it is not total damage, first of all,” said the general director of the OIEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi. “Face the nation with Margaret Brennan.” “And secondly, Iran has the capacities there; industrial and technological capacities. So, if they wish, they can start doing this again.”

The United States launched three attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 21, after more than a week of Israeli attacks, which President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth saying had “Obliterated” Iran nuclear facilities.

But Grossi’s comments seemed to support an early evaluation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which suggested that the strikes only had Iran’s nuclear program recedes for months. The Trump administration has criticized the evaluation of the day as “low trust”, and Hegseth and other officials on Thursday were after the media to inform about a “filtered” report.

In an informative session on Thursday, journalists interrogated Hegseth repeatedly about whether Iran had transferred their enriched uranium actions before the Israeli and American strikes began. The Secretary of Defense responded that “I was not aware of any intelligence that I have reviewed that it says that things were not supposed to be, moved or of another type.”

Grossi said Sunday that Iran did not share that they had plans to move the enriched uranium, but at the same time “there was no physical time” so that I will share that information.

The general director of the OIEA also admitted that it is “logical to assume that when [Iran] announce[s] that they will take protection measures “to move enriched uranium” could be part of it. “But also emphasized that” that is why it is so important, first, that Iran allows our inspectors to continue their indispensable work as soon as possible. ”

Brennan pressed Grossi that, since it is not clear if the uranium had moved and all the centrifugers cannot be counted, there is an open question that Iran could “run towards a bomb … if they wanted to.” Grossi said he did not want to be an “alarmist”, but “we must be able to determine, to confirm what is there and where it is and what happened.”

“Iran had a very vast ambitious program, and part of it can still be there, and if not, there is also the obvious truth that knowledge is there,” said Grossi. “Industrial capacity is there. Iran is a very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology, as is obvious. Therefore, you cannot disincept this. It cannot undo the knowledge it has or the abilities it has.

Grossi confirmed that its IEA inspectors could never verify Iran’s claims that its nuclear program was only for peaceful purposes and that it was not trying to develop a weapon.

“We did not see a program that was pointing in that direction, but at the same time, they did not answer very, very important questions that were pending,” said Grossi.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said in a statement on Saturday that there were calls in Iran for the arrest and execution of Grossi.

When asked about the alleged threats against nuclear inspectors, Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravanihe said in a separate appearance in “face the nation” that Iran does not threaten the nuclear inspectors, including Grossi.

The nuclear inspectors “are in Iran,” Iravani said. He said they are in a “safe condition”, but “they can’t have access to our site.”

Iravani also said that, since Iran is a member of the Non -Proliferation Treaty (TNP), nuclear enrichment “is our right and an inalienable right, and we want to implement this right.”

Iravani added that he did not believe that enrichment “will never stop.”

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