Iran has great nuclear capabilities that could be catastrophic if triggered –
IAEA’s Grossi
Praising the talks between the U.S. and Iran as a positive development that could avert a catastrophic war, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned that the Islamic Republic has the materials necessary to break out toward a nuclear weapon.
“Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon at this moment, but it has the material,” the official told the Financial Times in an in-depth interview.
Israel’s threat of military action means that “the Iranian thing has incredible potential to become catastrophic,” Grossi warned.
“If there is a failure in negotiation, this will imply, most probably, military action.”
Worse still, Grossi said he believed that Iran’s nuclear capabilities could not be destroyed with a single surgical strike.
“The most sensitive things are half a mile underground — I have been there many times,” he said. “To get there you take a spiral tunnel down, down, down.”
Israel has said it is prepared to strike its nuclear facilities to prevent Tehran from obtaining a weapon.
Grossi, however, said that he was encouraged that the Americans and Iranians were talking, adding that he had a high opinion of Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
“Witkoff is an extremely serious person — I don’t subscribe to the idea that he is not. I can say that Trump has triggered negotiations where there were none before, and this is objectively commendable.”
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