The head of the United Nations’ nuclear monitoring body said Monday that nearly all of the approximately 15,000 centrifuges operating at Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility were likely rendered inoperable due to an Israeli strike that triggered a major power outage.
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), had initially suggested that the attack on the external power systems of Natanz might have affected its centrifuges, though the structure housing them appeared untouched. Speaking to the BBC, he offered a much more definitive assessment.
“Our assessment is that with this sudden loss of external power, in great probability the centrifuges have been severely damaged if not destroyed altogether,” Grossi told the BBC.
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