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Iran may have hidden the uranium a hundred meters under the mountain

The 400 kilograms of enriched uranium missing after the attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities could have been moved to a facility deep inside the Kuh-e Kolang mountain near the bombed Natanz facility. This is reported by The Telegraph.

The facility is so deep underground, perhaps a hundred meters, that it is inaccessible even to the US's so-called bunker busters used during the attack on the underground Fordow facility. Sima Shine, an expert on Iran's nuclear energy program, tells the newspaper that Iran has hidden hundreds or even thousands of enrichment centrifuges in secret facilities.

Fredrik Nielsen, a nuclear weapons researcher at the Swedish FOI, says that the uranium may have been taken to the Kuh-e Kolang facility, but he does not believe that Iran has hidden centrifuges. But if Iran only has the uranium, it would still be relatively easy to enrich it to weapons-grade quality, he estimates.

– In principle, 99 percent of the job is already done – it's just the last bit left.

Information: Iran's uranium stockpile is still intact

Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium is largely intact after the US attacks on the country's nuclear facilities, according to intelligence shared with countries in Europe. This is stated by two sources with good insight to the Financial Times.

According to the information, a large amount of the enriched uranium was not at Fordow when American bombs fell on the nuclear facility. The intelligence indicates that the uranium was instead distributed in several different places, the sources state.

Both Donald Trump and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth criticize media outlets that claim that Iran's nuclear program was not destroyed in the attacks. In a post on Truth Social, the president says it would take too long and be too dangerous to move the uranium.

Hegseth slams media reporting on Iran: “You want Trump to fail so badly”

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slams media reporting on the US attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. He claims that the reports that the facilities were not destroyed are “fake news” and accuses several TV channels and newspapers of being against Donald Trump.

– It’s like it’s in your DNA, in your blood, to be against Trump. You want him to fail so badly that you have to hope that the attacks weren’t effective, says Hegseth.

According to the minister, Iran’s nuclear program is now “destroyed, defeated, wiped out.”

President Trump praises Hegseth’s statement and writes on Truth Social that it was “one of the best and most professional” press conferences he has ever watched.