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Where is Iran’s uranium? Questions abound after US strikes

AFP Vienna
Published: 23 Jun 2025, 22: 27

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This handout satellite picture taken on June 20 provided by Maxar Technologies on 22 June 2025, shows an overview of Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), northeast of the city of Qom AFP

After President Donald Trump bragged US strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities, officials cautioned it was still too soon to assess the impact on the country’s nuclear programme.

Many questions remain after Sunday’s strikes, especially about the whereabouts of Iran’s sensitive stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent -a short step from the 90 per cent required for a nuclear weapon.

Where is Iran’s enriched uranium?

The US attacks, carried out by B-2 stealth bombers, targeted three Iranian nuclear sites: Isfahan and Iran’s main enrichment plants in Fordo and Natanz.

While significant damage has been reported, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voiced concern about Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium.

Tehran has an estimated 408.6 kilogrammes of uranium enriched to 60 per cent, according to the UN nuclear watchdog, whose inspectors last saw that stockpile on June 10.

That material, if further refined, would theoretically be sufficient to produce more than nine nuclear bombs.

IAEA head Rafael Grossi on Monday demanded access to Iran’s nuclear sites, saying the agency needs to “account for” the uranium stockpile.

Concerns about the fate of the sensitive stockpile have loomed large. On June 13, the day Israel began its Iran offensive, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent a letter to the IAEA, announcing the implementation of “special measures to protect nuclear equipment and material”.

Days before the US attacked, satellite imagery showed vehicles near Fordo’s entrance.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had “interesting intelligence” on the matter, declining to elaborate.

Israel announced Monday it had carried out strikes to block access routes to Fordo.

“It will be difficult if not impossible to track down all of Iran’s 60 per cent enriched uranium, stored in small canisters that are easily transportable by car,” Kelsey Davenport, an expert with the Arms Control Association, told AFP.

“They (Iranians) no longer have the capacity to turn that stockpile of highly enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium, and that was really the goal there,” US Vice President JD Vance told ABC News.

He added the Trump administration would deal with the uranium “in the coming weeks”.

Can Iran still make a nuclear bomb?

Analysts have been treading carefully when addressing this issue.

Before the attacks, Iran had about 22,000 centrifuges -the machines used to enrich uranium. Many of them were damaged when Natanz was hit, the IAEA head said.

Grossi also said “very significant damage” is expected to have occurred at Fordo, “given the explosive payload utilised and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges”.

Experts however say that it is unclear how many centrifuges Iran has, with some of them believed to be stored at unknown locations.

With “60 per cent enriched uranium and a few hundred advanced centrifuges, Iran still has the capability to weaponise, and now there is more political impetus to dash for a bomb”, said Davenport.

What are the proliferation risks?

Before the conflict, the IAEA said it had “no indication” of the existence of a “systematic programme” in Iran to produce a nuclear weapon. But without access to nuclear sites, the agency no longer has oversight.

Grossi warned Monday that the “global non-proliferation regime that has underpinned international security... could crumble and fall”, urging parties to return to diplomacy.

Iran ratified the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) in 1970, committing it to declare its nuclear material to the IAEA. But it has recently begun preparing the grounds for a possible withdrawal from the treaty, accusing the agency of acting as a “partner” in Israel’s “war of aggression”.

Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, said Monday the “unlawful act of aggression” by the United States had “delivered a fundamental and irreparable blow” to the non-proliferation regime.

“I do think there is a major risk that Iran withdraws from the NPT and expels inspectors, or simply does not provide them with access to key sites,” said Eric Brewer of the US research institute Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).

He added that Iran could also “over time, build (a) covert” programme like North Korea, which withdrew from the NPT in 2003 and went on to become a nuclear-armed power.​
 
Out of 14 older Ghader missiles launched by Iran, 6 have totally demolished their targets just like in Tel Aviv/ Haifa/ Ashdod/ Ashkelon.

Gypsy people runnin round helter skelter felt the guttural thudds from the earth when the vibrations reached em.

6 solid impacts!

Now what 6 places has Iraans fukkin destroyed in AL-Gutter?

Iraan coulda launched a hundred.......but dis is symbolic only......just to scare da gypsy no?

@Vsdoc ...........luggta hae k ye ab rozana karna parray ga.......US involves itself.......Iraans goin go after dem colludz gypsy now no?.......

eeeejy peeeejy trade off........
 

Iran launches missiles at US base in Qatar in retaliation for strikes
Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 23 June, 2025, 23:32

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A general view of the Al-Udeid US military air base, south of Doha, on October 23, 2002. | AFP photo

Iran announced it had launched missiles at a major US base in Qatar on Monday in retaliation for American strikes on key nuclear facilities, with explosions ringing out in Doha and projectiles seen streaking overhead.

Qatar, which lies 190 kilometres (120 miles) south of Iran and is home to the largest US military facility in the Middle East, said its ‘air defences successfully intercepted a missile attack targeting Al Udeid Air Base’.

Iran’s National Security Council confirmed having targeted the base ‘in response to the US aggressive and insolent action against Iran’s nuclear sites and facilities’.

In its statement, the council said the number of missiles used ‘was the same as the number of bombs that the US had used’, in a signal that it had calibrated its response to be directly proportional.

After more than a week of Israeli strikes on nuclear and military targets across Iran, the United States joined its ally’s campaign on Sunday, carrying out attacks on three key Iranian nuclear facilities, including on an underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordo using massive bunker-busting bombs.

With international concern mounting that Israel’s campaign in Iran could lead to regional spillover – concern that only intensified after the US strikes – French President Emmanuel Macron said after the Iranian retaliation that ‘the spiral of chaos must end’.

Iran’s security council maintained that its ‘action does not pose any threat to our friendly and brotherly country, Qatar’.

But Qatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said his country ‘reserves the right to respond directly in a manner proportional to the nature and scale of this blatant aggression’.

Its much larger neighbour Saudi Arabia, historically a rival of Iran, condemned Tehran’s attack ‘in the strongest terms’, and offered ‘all its capabilities to support the sisterly State of Qatar in any measures it takes’.

AFP reporters heard blasts in central Doha and in Lusail, north of the capital, on Monday evening, and saw projectiles moving across the night sky.

A US defence official said Al Udeid was ‘attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originating from Iran’, adding there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Ansari said the base had been evacuated as a precaution ahead of time.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said six missiles had hit the base, according to state media.

Iranian official press agency IRNA had reported that missiles were also launched at a US base in Iraq, though the National Security Council made no mention of Iraq in its statement.

Iraqi security and military sources told AFP that Iran had not attacked US bases there ‘so far’.

Earlier in the day Qatar had announced the temporary closure of its airspace in light of ‘developments in the region’, while foreign embassies there including that of the United States had warned their citizens to shelter in place.

Neighbouring Bahrain and Kuwait also temporarily halted air traffic in the wake of the missile attack.

President Donald Trump boasted that Sunday’s strikes had ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but other officials said it was too soon to assess the impact on Iran’s atomic programme.

Tehran strikes

Just as Iran was announcing the new attacks, blasts were heard in the north of Tehran, according to an AFP journalist, who reported yellow flashes typical of Iranian air defences in the sky over the capital shortly before 9:00 pm (1730 GMT).

Earlier in the day Israel reported carrying out what it said were its most powerful strikes yet on Tehran.

Iran, in turn, fired missile barrages at Israel.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military hit sites in Tehran including Evin prison, which Katz said ‘holds political prisoners and regime opponents’, as well as command centres for the domestic Basij paramilitary and the Revolutionary Guards.

Iranian media and the Israeli military said Israel also struck Fordo on Monday ‘in order to obstruct access routes’ to the site.

Israel’s national electricity company reported ‘damage near a strategic infrastructure facility’ in the south that disrupted the power supply, without naming the location or specifying the cause.

The country’s military censorship rules bar the publication of some details about damage in Israel.

Iranian media, meanwhile, said Israel’s strikes hit a power supply system in Tehran, triggering temporary outages.

Israeli strikes on Iran have killed more than 400 people, Iran’s health ministry has said. Iran’s attacks on Israel have killed 24 people, according to official figures.

China urged both Iran and Israel to prevent the conflict from spilling over, warning of potential economic fallout.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on China to help deter Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

Trump floats ‘regime change’

After the Pentagon stressed the goal of US intervention was not to topple the Iranian government, Trump openly toyed with the idea.

‘If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???’ Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

His press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Trump was ‘still interested and engaging in’ diplomacy.

She suggested, however, that Iranians could overthrow their government if it did not agree to a diplomatic solution.

Top US general Dan Caine has said early assessments indicated the US strikes caused ‘extremely severe damage’ at all three nuclear sites.

Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that it had not been possible to assess the underground damage at Fordo.

‘Armed attacks on nuclear facilities should never take place,’ he added.

Iran has consistently denied seeking an atomic bomb, and Grossi has said there was no evidence to suggest it was doing so despite the Islamic republic being the only non-nuclear armed state to enrich uranium to 60 per cent.​
 

Asian countries most vulnerable to Strait of Hormuz blockade
Agence France-Presse . Tokyo 23 June, 2025, 22:50

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Around 84 per cent of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz is destined for Asia, leaving the economies of China, India, South Korea and others vulnerable should Iran blockade the crucial trading route over US strikes on its nuclear sites.

Around 14.2 million barrels of crude oil and 5.9 million barrels of other petroleum products pass through the strait per day—representing around 20 per cent of global production in the first quarter, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

And crude oil from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Iran almost exclusively passes through the corridor.

More than half of the oil imported by East Asia passes through the Strait of Hormuz, experts estimate.

China is one of the largest buyers, importing 5.4 million barrels of crude oil a day through Hormuz in the first quarter this year, according to the EIA.

Saudi Arabia is China’s second-largest supplier of crude oil, accounting for 15 per cent of its total oil imports -- 1.6 million barrels a day.

China also buys more than 90 per cent of Iran’s oil exports, according to the analysis firm Kpler.

It imported 1.3 million barrels of Iranian crude oil a day in April, down from a five-month high in March.

India is highly dependent on the Strait of Hormuz, importing 2.1 million barrels of crude a day through the corridor in the first quarter, EIA data shows.

Around 53 per cent of India’s imported oil in early 2025 came from Middle Eastern suppliers, particularly Iraq and Saudi Arabia, local media reported.

Wary of an escalating conflict in the Middle East, New Delhi has increased its imports of Russian oil over the past three years.

‘We have been closely monitoring the evolving geopolitical situation in the Middle East since the past two weeks,’ India’s Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday.

‘We have diversified our supplies in the past few years and a large volume of our supplies do not come through the Strait of Hormuz now,’ he wrote on X, adding ‘We will take all necessary steps to ensure stability of supplies of fuel to our citizens.’

Around 68 per cent of South Korea’s crude oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz -- 1.7 million barrels a day this year, according to the EIA.

South Korea is particularly dependent on its main supplier Saudi Arabia, which last year accounted for a third of its oil imports.

Seoul’s trade and energy ministry said there have been ‘no disruptions so far in South Korea’s crude oil and LNG imports’ but ‘given the possibility of a supply crisis’, officials were ‘planning for potential disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz’.

‘The government and industry stakeholders have prepared for emergencies by maintaining a strategic petroleum reserve equivalent to about 200 days of supply,’ the ministry said in a statement.

Japan imports 1.6 million barrels of crude oil a day through the Strait of Hormuz, the EIA says.

Japanese customs data showed 95 per cent of crude oil imports last year came from the Middle East.

The country’s energy freight companies are readying for a potential blockade of the strait.

‘We’re currently taking measures to shorten as much as possible the time spent by our vessels in the Gulf,’ shipping giant Mitsui OSK told AFP.

Around 2 million barrels of crude oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day in the first quarter were destined for other parts of Asia—particularly Thailand and the Philippines—as well as Europe (0.5 million barrels) and the United States (0.4 million barrels).

Asian countries could diversify their oil suppliers, but it is difficult to replace the large volumes coming from the Middle East.

In the short term, ‘elevated global oil inventories, OPEC+’s available spare capacity, and US shale production all could provide some buffer’, experts at MUFG Bank said.

‘However, a full closure of the Hormuz Strait would still impact on the accessibility of a major part of this spare production capacity concentrated in the Persian Gulf,’ they said.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have infrastructure to bypass the strait, potentially mitigating disruptions, but their transit capacity remains very limited—around 2.6 million barrels a day.

And the Goreh-Jask pipeline built by Iran to export via the Gulf of Oman, which has been inactive since last year, has a maximum capacity of only 300,000 barrels per day, according to the EIA.​
 

Israel, Iran continue missile attacks
Israel targets Iran Guards, Tehran prison, Iran vows ‘firm action’ after US strikes

Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 23 June, 2025, 23:57

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Members of Israeli security forces stand in a cordoned off area at the impact site of an Iranian rocket near the southern city of Ashdod on Monday. | AFP photo

Israel struck Tehran and Iran fired missiles on Monday, as the war between the long-time foes raged for its 11th day after the United States sent bombers to attack the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites.

Israel hit Revolutionary Guard sites and Evin prison in Tehran, in what it said were its most powerful strikes yet on the Iranian capital.

Iran, in turn, fired missile barrages at Israel and vowed retaliation against the United States after American strikes on the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites a day earlier.

Loud explosions rocked Tehran, where Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said the military hit sites with ‘unprecedented force’, adding to speculation that it is seeking to topple Iran’s clerical leadership.

The targets included Evin prison, which Katz said ‘holds political prisoners and regime opponents’, as well as command centres for the domestic Basij paramilitary and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iranian media and the Israeli military said Israel also struck Fordo, a key nuclear enrichment facility buried deep in the mountains south of Tehran.

The military said it had struck Fordo on Monday ‘in order to obstruct access routes’ to the site, which Israel’s ally the United States hit the previous day with massive bunker buster bombs.

Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Abdolrahim Mousavi vowed that the country would take ‘firm action’ in response to US strikes on key nuclear sites.

‘This crime and desecration will not go unanswered,’ said Mousavi in a video statement published on state TV, adding that ‘we will take firm action against the American mistake’.

President Donald Trump boasted that Sunday’s US strikes on three key sites had ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but other officials said it was too soon to assess the impact on Iran’s atomic programme, which Israel and some Western states consider an unacceptable threat.

Sirens sounded across Israel on Monday and AFP journalists reported blasts over Jerusalem and people fleeing to shelters in Tel Aviv.

Iranian media said Israel’s strikes hit a power supply system in Tehran, triggering temporary outages.

In Israel, the national electricity company reported ‘damage near a strategic infrastructure facility’ in the south that disrupted the power supply, without naming the location or specifying the cause.

Israel’s military censorship rules bar the publication of some details about damage in Israel.

Israeli strikes on Iran have killed more than 400 people, Iran’s health ministry has said. Iran’s attacks on Israel have killed 24 people, according to official figures.

After the US strikes, global markets reacted nervously, with oil prices jumping more than four per cent early Monday but dipping later in the day.

China urged both Iran and Israel to prevent the conflict from spilling over, warning of potential economic fallout.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio called on China to help deter Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said closing the strategic strait would be ‘extremely dangerous’.

With Iran threatening US bases in the region, the State Department issued a worldwide alert cautioning Americans abroad.

In Bahrain, home to a major US naval base, the US embassy said it had ‘temporarily shifted a portion of its employees to local telework’, citing ‘heightened regional tensions’.

Meanwhile, international oil firms including BP and Total evacuated some of their foreign staff from southern Iraq, the state-owned Basra Oil Company said.

After the Pentagon stressed the goal of US intervention was not to topple the Iranian government, Trump openly toyed with the idea.

‘If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???’ Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

His press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Trump was ‘still interested and engaging in’ diplomacy.

She suggested, however, that Iranians could overthrow their government if it did not agree to a diplomatic solution.

At a Pentagon press briefing, top US general Dan Caine said ‘initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage’.

Speaking ahead of a NATO summit this week, the alliance’s chief Mark Rutte said Tehran should not be allowed a nuclear weapon, calling it his ‘greatest fear’, while German chancellor Friedrich Merz said ‘there is no reason to criticise what America did’.

Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that craters were visible at the Fordo facility, but it had not been possible to assess the underground damage.

‘Armed attacks on nuclear facilities should never take place,’ he added.

Iran has consistently denied seeking an atomic bomb, and Grossi has said there was no evidence to suggest it was doing so despite the Islamic republic being the only non-nuclear armed state to enrich uranium to 60 per cent.

The IAEA said on Monday that Tehran had informed it of ‘special measures to protect nuclear material’ when the Israeli campaign began.

The UN agency also said it was seeking access to Iranian nuclear sites to ‘account for’ stockpiles of highly enriched uranium.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, who met with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday, had accused the United States and Israel of deciding to ‘blow up’ nuclear diplomacy with their attacks.​
 

Trump says Israel and Iran agree to 'total ceasefire'

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US President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation, accompanied by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at the White House in Washington, DC, US June 21, 2025, following US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. File photo: Reuters

US President Donald Trump said that a "complete and total" ceasefire between Israel and Iran will go into force with a view to ending the 12-day conflict between the two nations, moments after both sides threatened new attacks.

While an Iranian official confirmed that Tehran had agreed to a ceasefire, there was no immediate comment yet from Israel.

A senior White House official said Israel had agreed so long as Iran does not launch further attacks and that Trump brokered the deal in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump appeared to suggest that Israel and Iran would have some time to complete any missions that are underway, at which point the ceasefire would begin in a staged process.

"On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, 'THE 12 DAY WAR'," he wrote on his Truth Social site.

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani secured Tehran's agreement during a call with Iranian officials, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters on Tuesday.

Trump told Qatar's emir that Israel had agreed to the ceasefire, according to the official.

Neither Iran's UN mission nor the Israeli embassy in Washington immediately responded to separate requests for comment from Reuters.

Hours earlier, three Israeli officials had signaled Israel was looking to wrap up its campaign in Iran soon and had passed the message on to the United States.

Netanyahu had told government ministers whose discussions ended early on Tuesday not to speak publicly, Israel's Channel 12 television reported.

S&P 500 futures rose 0.4% late on Monday, suggesting traders expect the US stock market to open with gains on Tuesday.

US crude futures fell in early Asian trading hours on Tuesday to their lowest level in more than a week after Trump said a ceasefire had been agreed, relieving worries of supply disruption in the region.

END TO THE FIGHTING?

There did not appear to be calm yet in the region.

The Israeli military issued two evacuation warnings in less than two hours to residents of areas in the Iranian capital Tehran, one late on Monday and one early on Tuesday.

Israeli Army radio reported early on Tuesday that alarms were activated in the southern Golan Heights area due to fears of hostile aircraft intrusion.

Earlier on Monday, Trump said he would encourage Israel to proceed towards peace after dismissing Iran's attack on an American air base that caused no injuries and thanking Tehran for the early notice of the strikes.

Iran's attack came after US bombers dropped 30,000-pound bunker-busters on Iranian underground nuclear facilities at the weekend, joining Israel's air war against Iran in a conflict that has entered its 12th day.

Much of Tehran's population of 10 million has fled after days of bombing.

The Trump administration maintains that its aim was solely to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, not to open a wider war.

But in a social media post on Sunday, Trump spoke of toppling the hardline clerical rulers who have been Washington's principal foes in the Middle East since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Israel, however, had made clear that its strikes on Evin prison - a notorious jail for housing political prisoners - and other targets in Tehran were intended to hit the Iranian ruling apparatus broadly, and its ability to sustain power.​
 
The west uses ghareeb dalit log for hollywood theatrics like we see hendu-pak all about top gun n titanic and Star wars and get easily brainwashed......Dalit colludzz converts are complacent in dis attack on Iran........So now Iraans should fukkin cut off their energy no?

@Vsdoc ........converts need to be targeted ASAP.......Aaaj muzlim, kal Christy-X-Tian, parson ghar waapsi?

I'm getting tired doc.......Iran ko in ko foran maar daalna chahiye......cuz deez bitches good fo nutthin no?

I'm on da zoro/ parsi/ irani forums and dis da tact being discussed right now......

This is just an evil fifth column minions of Rome in da way of resurrectin da Sassanid millat.......

In ka koi bharossa nahi bhai.......anything goes doc.......something needs to be done here.
 
@Vsdoc .........Bhai.......pretty fukkin evident now, Iraans come out of all this massive attack largely unscathed.......Kuchh nahi kar saka west using Israel in 2025, just like using saddam hussain against Iran in 1980 no?

Its a total fail.....the whole regime change. denuking and disarming Iran nonsense.

Iranis laughing out hard now.......on how stupid da west is......

In iranio ka to kuchh nahi bigarr saka west......

Hamara kya banay ga doc?.......We are in so much trouble no? Wes fukking bankrupt no?

Pakistan in serious trouble no?
 
Dis how new wars are being fought now......jhhoott, fraud dhoka bazi, bukvaas aur propaganda.......sub ko pata chal gya hae ab.

Lund huwa Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz per aur aaj subah AL-Gutter per:

 

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