Iran's Uranium Stockpile: A Ticking Time Bomb?

0:00It's April 30th. This is Global News today, driven by AI tracking the world in real time. The head of the UN nuclear agency, Rafael Grossi, just drops some key intel. Most of Iran's highly enriched uranium is probably still chilling at. The Ispahad nuclear complex. That spot got hit by airstrikes last year during a 12-day war and lighter attacks this year in the US-Israeli conflict. How do light images back this up? Showing trucks hauling blue containers into a tunnel there, right before the war kicked off last June. IAEA inspections stopped cold when the strikes began, and they haven't been able to check the seals or confirm the materials still in place. This stockpile could theoretically fuel up to 10 nuclear bombs if Iran went that route, though they swear it's all peaceful. As a signer of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Iran has to let inspectors in at sites like Natanz and Fort Out 2, but wars blocked that. Lately, Grossi revealed Iran declared a new enrichment facility at Ispahad last June,

1:04untouched by strikes. Talks are bubbling with the US and Iran, even floating ideas like shipping the uranium out, maybe with Russia's help, though Trump's prioritizing. Ukraine. Bottom line, both sides want to deal, but they're stuck on who blinks first. Real take a real political will from Tehran to get eyes on that material and dial back the tensions for good.