While UN issues mixed signals, Witkoff exposes Tehran’s nuclear evasion ‘pride’

The gorgeous particulars revealed by Steve Witkoff on his talks with Iran and their boastful remarks about his nuclear program have apparently fallen on deaf ears on the UN nuclear company.

Days into the US-Israel joint marketing campaign towards Iran, the director common of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi posted to X stating, “There has been no evidence of Iran building a nuclear bomb.”

Fox News Digital requested the IAEA the way it might assess the event of a potential nuclear weapon with out entry to Iran’s services however obtained no response at press time.

Grossi’s put up got here because the US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff gave particulars to Fox News’ Sean Hannity earlier this week on his talks with the regime previous to the US and Israel launching their navy operation towards Tehran.

Witkoff revealed the negotiators stated that they had an “inalienable right” to complement uranium. When Witkoff countered that the Trump administration had the “inalienable right to stop [them, ]”I defined that the negotiators stated this was solely their place to begin.

“They have 10,000, roughly, kilograms of fissile material that’s broken up into roughly 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, another 1,000 kilograms 20% enriched uranium,” Witkoff defined. “They manufacture their own centrifuges to enrich this material, so there’s almost not stopping them. They have an endless supply of it. The 60% material can be brought to 90% – that’s weapon grade — in roughly one week, maybe 10 days outside. The 20% can be brought to weapons grade within three to four weeks.”

Witkoff added that in his first assembly with the negotiators, they stated “with no shame that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of this negotiating stance.”

“They had been happy with it. They had been proud that that they had evaded all types of oversight protocols to get to a spot the place they might deliver 11 nuclear bombs“Witkoff stated.

Grossi, who’s operating to turn out to be the subsequent United Nations secretary common, did nevertheless admit in his put up on X that Iran maintains “a large stockpile of near-weapon grade enriched uranium” and stated that the Islamic Republic has not allowed inspectors full entry to its program. With these info in thoughts, he stated that the IAEA “will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful” till Iran “assists…in resolving the outstanding safeguards issues.”

Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, FDD, informed Fox News Digital, “No one paid much attention to Rafael Grossi throughout the Biden years when he repeatedly warned publicly that Iran was refusing to cooperate with and providing false statements to the IAEA about ongoing investigations into undeclared facilities, activities and nuclear material.”

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The former Trump administration official stated, “There are some key facts being ignored today. The IAEA board last year found Iran to be in breach of the NPT. To this day, Grossi has confirmed that the IAEA cannot verify the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful.”

He continued, “This is not Iraq where we lacked hard public evidence of a nuclear weapons program. Iran had built out nearly every part of its nuclear weapons program in plain sight, with the weaponization work moving forward at undeclared sites controlled by SPND. If the administration had evidence the regime was moving quickly to reconstitute key elements of that program — from advanced centrifuge manufacturing to completion of a new underground enrichment site alongside advancement of delivery vehicle programs – the president was fully justified in enforcing a red line he set after Operation Midnight Hammer.”

Map of Iran nuclear services attacked by the US in Operation Midnight Hammer. (FoxNews)

Spencer Faragasso, a senior fellow on the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), informed Fox News Digital that his group calculated previous to the June 2025 12 Day War that Iran possessed 440.9 kilograms of 60% wealthy uranium. With about 24 or 25 kilograms of 90% wealthy uranium required per weapon, Faragasso stated the nation possessed the power to provide 11 weapons in a single month.

Faragasso stated that there stay questions on whether or not the Iranians can entry their enriched supplies, and whether or not they possess extra centrifuges that will not have been put in within the services that had been struck.

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“Being able to enrich the uranium up to weapon grade is actually a tall order,” he stated, explaining that it might require a brand new enrichment website and parts and supplies that “Iran would either need to recover from its destroyed facilities” or “illicitly import them from abroad.” With a number of hundred centrifuges, sufficient for 2 or three cascades, Faragasso stated the Iranians might have enriched their uranium shops to weapon grade.

“To be clear, the successes gained from the June war are not permanent and officials from the regime spoke publicly about how they wanted to reconstitute their enrichment program, their nuclear program,” he stated. “The more time that goes on, the worse the situation will get. It’s not going to get better, especially regarding the ballistic missile program.”

Satellite imagery taken on Jan. 30, 2026, exhibits a brand new roof over a beforehand destroyed constructing at Natanz nuclear website. (2026 PLANET LABS PBC/Handout through REUTERS)

He stated the Iranians had beforehand expressed the will to open a fourth enrichment website, which the IAEA acknowledged was in Esfahan. According to Faragasso, there was “never confirmation” of the place the location was or how far alongside building might have been.

The group is now monitoring an Israeli strike on March 3 on Min-Zadayi, a website that Faragasso stated “was completely unknown” to them beforehand. The Israel Defense Forces reported on X that the location was “used by a group of nuclear scientists who operated to develop a key component for nuclear weapons.”

The State Department referred Fox News Digital to remarks made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the press on Tuesday on Iran’s nuclear program.

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“This terroristic, radical, cleric-led regime cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.” Explaining that the Islamic Republic was “willing to slaughter their own people in the streets,” Rubio directed members of the press to “imagine what they would do to us. Imagine what they would do to others. Under President Trump that will never, ever happen,” he stated.

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