The UN’s nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian programme to build nuclear weapons despite Israeli and US claims.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi told NBC News that the agency had not identified “elements of a systematic and structured programme to manufacture nuclear weapons” in Iran.
At the same time, he confirmed that Tehran has enriched uranium to 60 percent purity – a level far beyond civilian energy needs.
Grossi said such enrichment is something “only countries with nuclear weapons have”.
He stressed that inspectors could not conclude Iran intends to build a bomb, but said the stockpiling raised serious questions.
This enrichment, he said, was “the source of the concerns we had”, and there was “no clear objective” for accumulating material at that level.
“The centrifuges were spinning constantly and producing more and more of that material,” he said, adding that theoretically this would have been “enough to produce more than 10 nuclear warheads. But do they have them? No.”
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