(Bloomberg) – President Donald Trump’s decision to order US forces to attack the three -key Iranian nuclear facilities may have sabotaged the known atomic abilities of the Islamic Republic, but at the same time, the rest of the monument has created a new challenge to find out where it was.
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Trump said that intensely reinforced areas were “completely destroyed” on Saturday, but independent analyzes have not yet confirmed this claim. The strikes have complicated the task of monitoring Uranium and not building a weapon, according to three people following the country’s nuclear program, rather than a quick win.
The International Atomic Energy Agency monitors remained in Iran and examined more than one site the day before Israel started the bombing campaign on June 13th. They are still trying to evaluate the degree of damage, and the military action provides an incentive for Iran to underground, although Iran can destroy the declared facilities of Iran.
Trump sent Iran’s huge ammunition penetrates B-2 hidden Jets, known as the GBU-57 bombs to try to destroy the underground uranium-vision areas in Iran’s Natanz and Fordow.
Satellite images taken by Maxar Technologies on Sunday, Fordow, show new craters, possible collapsed tunnel inputs and holes on a mountain back.
They also show that a large support building in the Fordow area, where operators can use to check the ventilation for underground enrichment halls, remain undamaged. IAEA reported that there are no radiation versions from the site.
Natanz’s new paintings show a new craters of approximately 5.5 meters (18 feet). Maxar said in a statement that the new hole appears on a portion of the underground enrichment facility directly in dirt. The image does not provide precise evidence that the attack violates the underground area, buried 40 meters on the ground and strengthens with a 8 -meter thought concrete and steel peel.
The US Air Force General Dan Caine said at a press conference early on Sunday, “the last war damage will take some time,” he said. Meanwhile, IAEA inspectors have not been able to confirm the place of the Uranium stock of the Basra Gulf country for more than a week. Iranian officials, IAEA seals to break and move to an unexplained place accepted.
Indeed, Darya Dolzikova, a senior research assistant at the Royal United Services Institute, a London -based thinking tank, has a fine possibility that the United States will convince Iran to persuade Iaea to increase the cooperation of IAEA.
“The more possible scenario is that cooperation and transparency of Iran does not work and deeper facilities and non -explicit facilities are more logical to prevent similar targeting in the future,” he said.
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IAEA asked the hostility to be discontinued to address the situation. General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that 35 Ulus Board of Directors will meet in Vienna on Monday.
Before the US intervention, images alone showed that Israeli forces had a limited success four days after the bombing. The damage of the central facility in Natanz, 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Tehran, was primarily limited to the electrical switch gardens and transformers.
The US also participated in the attack on Isfahan nuclear technology and research center, 450 kilometers south of Tehran. This was after IAEA re -evaluating the level of damage to Israel. The agency wrote late on Saturday, and the Iranian colleagues and satellite images and communication with Iranian colleagues seemed to be “intensely damaged”.
Images are now extensively damaged by the US bombing, including a large industrial building set determined by Bloomberg last week. IAEA previously reported that destruction may result in “radioactive and chemical contamination in hit facilities”.
The central mission of IAEA is to take into account the gram levels of uranium worldwide and ensure that it is not used for nuclear weapons. Tariq Rauf, former president of IAEA’s nuclear-birth policy, makes it difficult to follow the last bombing now Iran.
“It will be very difficult for IAEA to establish a financial balance for approximately 9,000 kilograms of uranium, especially for approximately 410 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium,” he said.
Last week, the inspectors had already accepted that Iran had followed the location of the highly enriched uranium stock, because Israel’s ongoing military attacks prevented the inspectors from doing their work.
Uranium inventory, which was sufficient to make 10 nuclear war titles in a secret place, was seen in Isfahan by IAEA Inspectors. However, the material that can fit up to 16 small covers can already be spiritual outside the field.
“Iran continues to hide the already enriched stocks of Iran,” he said. “These will be moved to places that are almost absolutely hardened and unexplained through potential Israel or US strikes.”
Iran’s goal of making fuel for nuclear power plants and weapons was buried in an intensely reinforced infrastructure throughout the country. Thousands of scientists and engineers are working on dozens of sites.
While military analysts were waiting for more images before determining the success of Trump’s mission, nuclear protection analysts concluded that their work would be significantly more difficult.
By bombing Iran’s sites, Israel and the United States did not break the accounting of IAE’s nuclear stocks, and Robert Kelley, who directed the inspections of Iraq and Libya as IAEA Director, broke the tools that the monitors could use.
This includes the judicial method used to detect the potential deviation of uranium. “Now the sites are bombed and all material classes are scattered everywhere. Iaea will never use environmental sampling again,” he said. “The particles of each isotopic definition have endless half -life for judicial purposes and will be impossible to solve their origins.”
(Updates with Natanz images in the seventh paragraph.)
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