The UN nuclear agency points out that, for the moment, it has no evidence that the authorities of Iran have rebuilt the facilities hit in the bombings carried out by the United States and Israel in 2025 and in February of this year, coinciding with the outbreak of the war in Iran.
"Since June 2025, we have not detected any repair or reconstruction activity of the facilities damaged in the military attacks of 2025 and 2026," explained this Tuesday the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, in a statement before the United Nations Security Council.
Grossi has again denounced that, currently, his inspection teams can only access the Bushehr nuclear power plant. At this site, he emphasized, there is a technical cooperation with Iranian experts to "manage the delivery of the necessary safeguards equipment for the verification of spent fuel."
Outside of Bushehr, he stressed that there is no collaboration regarding other facilities that were the subject of attacks, including the Fordow fuel enrichment plant, the pilot fuel enrichment plant, and the Natanz fuel enrichment plant, several facilities of the Isfahan complex, and the Jondab heavy water research reactor.
The head of the IAEA has insisted that his inspectors still cannot independently verify the status of Iranian nuclear material, including the 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60% that Tehran had previously declared, and has demanded that the Iranian authorities authorize the agency's entry again.
"As of today, the IAEA has not been able to verify that there has been no diversion of nuclear material subject to safeguards," he stated.
In parallel, Grossi has reminded that the United States government has claimed on several occasions that it succeeded in destroying Iran's nuclear facilities, but so far it has not presented conclusive evidence to support such claims.
"Nothing replaces access to the facilities to verify the real situation," Grossi has stated in this regard. "I encourage Iran to consider technical and gradual measures that would create the necessary conditions for the return of our inspectors," he concluded, emphasizing that only a continued presence of the IAEA on the ground would clarify the fate of the nuclear material and the real state of the damaged infrastructures.