Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The director of national intelligence had previously said Iran was not building nuclear weapons Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could produce nuclear weapons “within weeks”, months after she testified before Congress that the country was not building them. The US Director of National Intelligence said...
A relatively new talking point has been floated that there is no evidence independent from Israel’s intelligence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. In the most narrow of senses, one could argue that this is true. After all, none of us is a mind-reader, and it is conceivable that the Iranian regime just loves the...
One expert has warned that attacks on nuclear facilities “should never take place” because of the radioactive fallout. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! The Pentagon has reportedly assessed that the only weapon that could destroy a nuclear facility in Iran deemed by war hawks to be...
Wowza. It’s no surprise that Israel has destroyed Iran’s Arak nuclear reactor. After all, it was a key element of Iran’s program to build nuclear weaponry, and a very vulnerable target. The only strategic reason not to attack it was the fact that it could have contained highly radioactive material, and Israel had to balance...
Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Victoria Gill BBC News Science Team Getty Images / Maxar Technologies. Iran’s Natanz nuclear site has been a target of Israel’s airstrikes The IAEA has described the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities as “deeply concerning”. On Monday, its Director General Rafael Grossi said that military escalation “increases the chance of...
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has long warned that Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons. After Israel launched attacks on Iran last week, Netanyahu said Iran could produce a bomb within months. BBC Verify’s Ros Atkins explains what we know about Iran’s nuclear programme. Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Additional reporting by Thomas Spencer and...
“We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon,” IAEA’s Rafael Grossi said. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The head of the leading intergovernmental watchdog for nuclear energy and atomic weapons has confirmed that the agency...
Reuters US President Donald Trump is considering whether to join Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, as the conflict continues for a sixth day and angry rhetoric ramps up between all sides. American strikes could involve using superior weaponry to hit an underground nuclear site at Fordo, according to five sources who spoke to the...
US spies have assessed that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapon for over 20 years. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he doesn’t care that his own Director of National Intelligence...
Reuters International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi briefed member states at a meeting in Vienna The head of the global nuclear watchdog says there has been no further damage to Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant since Israel struck the country’s nuclear sites on Friday. Rafael Grossi told the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA)...
Paul Brown and Shayan Sardarizadeh BBC Verify Maxar / BBC Satellite imagery shared with BBC Verify has provided a clearer picture of damage inflicted on two of Iran’s key nuclear sites as well as other military targets. Imagery from two different providers shows damage to the Natanz nuclear facility as well as a missile site...
NurPhoto via Getty Images Iran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and that it enriches uranium to produce fuel for power plants like Bushehr Israel has struck dozens of targets across Iran, damaging the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and assassinating top military commanders and nuclear scientists in Tehran. After the first wave of...
In 2024, for the fifth year in a row, the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations increased spending on nuclear weapons, according to a report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The annual report, entitled, “Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024,” reveals that last year, the nine nuclear states increased spending by...
Watch: Footage shows explosions and damaged buildings ablaze in Iran’s capital Tehran Israel launched strikes across Iran on Friday, saying they targeted the “heart” of Iran’s nuclear programme. With counter-attacks expected “in the immediate future”, a state of emergency was declared in Israel. Hossein Salami, chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards – a powerful branch...
In a video statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to “Israel’s very survival”. He said that Israel had targeted Iranian scientists “working on the Iranian bomb” and that the strikes “would continue for as many days as it...