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IAEA chief expects ‘very significant damage’ at Iran’s Fordo site
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has taken seat for the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on June 16, 2025. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
US bombing probably caused “very significant” damage to the underground areas of Iran’s Fordo uranium enrichment plant dug into a mountain, though no one can yet tell the extent, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says.
“Given the explosive payload utilized and the extreme(ly) vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred,” Grossi says in a statement to an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors.
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