According to a New York Times report citing US intelligence officials, Iran may still be able to access highly enriched uranium believed to have been buried after US strikes on the Isfahan nuclear facility last June
US intelligence reportedly identified a very narrow access point through which the uranium could potentially be retrieved.
American intelligence agencies have determined that Iran or potentially another group could retrieve Iran’s primary store of highly enriched uranium even though it was entombed under the country’s nuclear site at Isfahan by U.S. strikes last year, according to multiple officials familiar with the classified reports.
Satellite images show excavation equipment moving large amounts of earth. Workers appear to have dug a pit, placed an unidentified object inside under a tarp, and then buried it.
