Iran’s Nuclear Sites Hobbled But Not Destroyed, Experts Say
A poster displaying portraits of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists, killed in Israel's attack, in Tehran.
Photographer: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
Israel’s airstrikes damaged Iran’s nuclear program but likely fell well short of eliminating it, experts said, presenting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US with a quandary on what to do next.
The full extent of the destruction caused by the ongoing missile barrage is only starting to become clear. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told the United Nations Security Council on Friday that while Israel destroyed surface facilities at Iran’s main nuclear-fuel site in Natanz, it hadn’t yet breached the primary underground halls where uranium enrichment takes place.