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| Iranians reportedly booby-trapped tunnels leading to enriched uranium at main nuclear site |
| 2026-06-14 |
| By Gabrielle Fahmy [NYPost] Iran booby-trapped the tunnels leading to its highly enriched uranium stockpile in recent weeks — in an apparent bid to stop the US from raiding its key nuclear site, a bombshell new report revealed. The Islamic Republic planted explosive mines at tunnel entrances and deliberately collapsed passageways to its nuclear cache in the city of Isfahan, south of Tehran, five sources familiar with US intelligence told CNN. The news comes after President Trump was reportedly considering sending in US troops to seize the nuclear material in late March. The risky ground raid was ultimately scrapped, but may have given Tehran the incentive to conceal its nuclear assets, two of the sources said. An estimated 440 pounds of 60% enriched uranium — which is only a short technical step from a nuclear weapon — is stored in the tunnel complex, the only major nuclear site that appears to have survived largely intact after the 12-day war with Israel in June 2025, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog. That amount represents more than half of the Iranian regime’s total stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the IAEA said. Iran also reportedly intentionally sealed some of its tunnels at Isfahan to block access to nuclear materials over the last few weeks. A proposed peace deal to effectively end the war between the US and Iran, which is expected to be signed this weekend, requires Tehran to turn over its enriched uranium so it can be destroyed on site and transported out of the country. More at the link Related: Isfahan: 2026-06-13 Iran mined entrances to bombed nuke site to deter US retrieval of uranium, launched attack drones at ships in Strait of Hormuz that US shot down Isfahan: 2026-06-10 NYT: Iran will dilute rather than hand over uranium stockpile as part of deal with US Isfahan: 2026-06-08 Why Israel could not let Iran's missile attack go unanswered - analysis |
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