Iran's above-ground enrichment plant at Natanz destroyed, IAEA chief says


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  • Saturday, 14 Jun 2025

FILE PHOTO: IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi holds a press conference after the first day of the agency's quarterly Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 9, 2025. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner/File Photo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The above-ground pilot enrichment plant at Iran's Natanz nuclear site has been destroyed, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council on Friday.

"At present, the Iranian authorities are informing us of attacks on two other facilities, namely the Fordow fuel enrichment plant and at Isfahan," the International Atomic Energy Agency's Grossi told the 15-member council.

"At this moment we do not have enough information beyond indicating that military activity has been taken place around these facilities as well."

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Ryan Patrick Jones)

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