Vienna:
The United Nations does not consider Iran’s Parchin facility to be a “nuclear facility,” U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Wednesday, after Israel claimed last month’s attack hit Tehran’s nuclear program. said.
Grossi told reporters in Vienna that “there is no information to support the presence of nuclear material” even though the Parchin site “may have been involved in some activities in the past.”
“But as far as the IAEA is concerned, we do not consider this a nuclear facility,” he said.
“We will leave it to military decision makers to determine and characterize locations,” he added.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s attack on Iran in late October had damaged “some parts” of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament, “This attack made it public that a specific part of the nuclear program was attacked.”
“The program itself and the ability to operate here has not yet been thwarted,” he added.
US news portal Axios, citing unnamed US and Israeli officials, reported that the attack on Iran “destroyed a secret, operational nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin.”
The site is about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of Tehran.
Israel has repeatedly accused Iran of wanting to acquire an atomic bomb, a claim denied by the Iranian government.
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