Iran's Uranium Stash: UN's Grossi on Nuclear Ambitions

0:00It's April 29th, I'm Cory with the story. This is Canada News today, driven by AI. The head of the U.N. nuclear agency, Rafael Grossi, just dropped some key intel. Most of Iran's highly enriched uranium is probably still chilling at. The Ispahad nuclear complex. That spot got hammered by airstrikes last year and lighter hits during this year's U.S.-Israeli conflict. Inspections there shut down back in June 2025 when Israel kicked off a 12-day war with the U.S. bombing three Iranian nuclear sites. Satellite picks from Airbus show trucks hauling 18 blue containers into a tunnel at Ispahad right before the fighting started and the IAEA. Figures that uranium stockpile hasn't budged since. This stash could fuel up to 10 nuclear bombs if Iran went that route, though they swear it's all peaceful. President Trump launched those strikes mainly to knee-caparons atomic ambitions, claiming they wrecked the program, but Grossi says the materials.

1:00Seals are intact as far as they can tell, without eyes on the ground. Now, the IAEA is pushing for checks at other spots like Natanz and Fordo too, and they're talking with Russia and others about shipping the uranium out. Or diluting it, tricky stuff needing big political buy-in or military muscle. Iran's floating proposals to ease up on the straight of Hormuz in exchange for ending the blockade, but they want to sequence talks on missiles and proxies first. Both sides say they're game to negotiate, but they're budding heads on priorities. From Grossi to Secretary Rubio calling nukes, the core issue. Full inspections have to be part of any deal, and with a flicker of hope in the air, political will from Tehran could finally crack this open.