The International Atomic Energy Agency does not know the status of Iran's new uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan, which is located in an underground nuclear complex. This was stated by the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, quoted by "Reuters".
"It is underground, but we have not visited it yet", explained Grossi, who is in Washington for a conference and for talks with representatives of the Donald Trump administration.
Iran informed the UN nuclear watchdog about the new facility in June, and Grossi specified that IAEA inspectors were in Isfahan later that month to see it, but were forced to cancel their visit when the nuclear complex there was hit at the beginning of the 12-day war with Israel.
He pointed out that because the inspectors were forced to cancel their visit, the agency does not know "whether it is just an empty hall", but concrete platforms waiting for the installation of centrifuges - the machines that enrich uranium for power plants and nuclear weapons - or whether some centrifuges have already been installed.
"There are many questions that we will only clarify when we can return," Grossi noted.
A shell hit an area near Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant last night but caused no damage or injuries, Iran told the IAEA.
The entrances to the underground and previously bombed uranium enrichment plant at Natanz were hit earlier in US-Israeli military attacks on the country, the IAEA confirmed on March 3.