Iran likely has more underground sites it could turn into uranium facilities: experts

While President Trump has announced that Iran’s “key” nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan have been “completely and totally obliterated,” experts said there could be more locations of concern.David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, told The Post that at least one other location in Iran has been dug out and could be turned into a uranium enrichment facility.In 2022, Albright published a report placing a new “underground complex … south of the main uranium enrichment site” at Natanz.Satellite photos taken of the Fordow nuclear facility days before the bombing, show cargo trucks lined up in front.“We don’t know was taken away but, obviously, it was something important,” Albright acknowledged.“They had stocks [of enriched uranium] and they had centrifuges.

So, those are things they could have removed.”As for whether the materials could have been taken to the additional facility he wrote about, Albright said, “Could be.But I think Israel would know that — they certainly are capable of following those trucks.“I think it would be very risky,” he added.

“I think Iran is too worried and too scared to really start a [new] enrichment plant, let alone make a move to produce nuclear grade uranium and a nuclear weapon right now.”While he believes there is a low probability that Iran could be ready to get another facility up and running quickly, Albright said, “You want to make sure that they’re not having a couple thousand centrifuges somewhere, enriching 60% enriched uranium.But I don’t think they would do that.

I think they’re just too disorganized and in shock to do that now — but wait six months.”Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, maintained earlier this month that the country had an enrichment site that he described as being in a “secure and invulnerable location.”“The new site is fully constructed and located in a secure, invuln...