IAEA chief skeptical Iran’s nuclear program can be eliminated with just military action

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said that he does not believe that Iran’s nuclear program can be eliminated solely by military action. 

“I would agree with that. Because this program is a very vast program. It’s a program that has been built throughout the years, decades of efforts, and it’s scattered across a number of places,” Grossi said when asked if Tehran’s nuclear program can be resolved militarily.

“Facilities, Universities, laboratories, with quite sophisticated scientific and technological and industrial base,” he said during a briefing with reporters Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C.

Last June, the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear sites — in Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan — as part of Operation Midnight Hammer, with President Trump........

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