UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief Says Iran Could Return to Enriching Uranium in Months

The chief said there was ‘a very serious level of damage’ to Iran’s nuclear sites but that the capacity still exists for Iran to enrich uranium.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi at the Austrian Chancellery in Vienna on June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner/File Photo

Iran could start enriching uranium again in a matter of months, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on June 29.

Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), discussed Iran’s future uranium enrichment capabilities in a June 27 interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” that was aired on June 29.