Mystery Deepens Around Iran’s Uranium

(MENAFN) Doubt surrounds the current location of Iran’s heavily enriched uranium reserve after recent military actions by the US and Israel targeted vital nuclear sites, a prominent American newspaper reported on Thursday.

Over a period of years, Iran had accumulated approximately 880 pounds of uranium refined to 60 percent purity—approaching the threshold for weaponization—according to a news agency.

For an extended time, intelligence agencies suspected that Tehran might relocate this material if it sensed an impending assault.

Although US Leader Donald Trump asserted that “nothing was taken out of the facility” at Fordo and described any such transport as “too dangerous and very heavy and hard to move!”, other authorities offer conflicting perspectives.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House’s Press Secretary, stated that American intelligence had “no indication” the uranium was relocated prior to the attack. Still, evaluations on the matter remain inconsistent.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), noted that available data suggested at least some of the uranium had been transferred.

“I don’t know if they moved all of it,” Grossi stated, “but the evidence points to their moving out a lot of it.”

Sources in intelligence propose that the uranium might have been secretly transported, potentially even hidden in car trunks.

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