After strikes, Iran retains potential for nuclear threat — Jerusalem Post
The potential nuclear threat from Iran persists, although there are currently no signs that it is imminent, The Jerusalem Post writes, citing several sources. According to them, Israeli strikes in June 2025 and in early 2026 significantly damaged Tehran's nuclear program but did not eliminate all risks of its restoration.
Centrifuges and uranium stockpiles
The publication's sources claim that Iran is currently not using centrifuges to enrich uranium, while stockpiles of uranium enriched to 60% and 20% are not yet easy to access. Most of the country's nuclear facilities, according to this information, were put out of operation after two waves of strikes.
At the same time, a significant number of centrifuges survived underground. Sources warned that restoring and reconnecting even several hundred modern IR-6 centrifuges to cascades in the medium term could in the future give Iran the ability to secretly obtain enough enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon.
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Tehran may also, according to the Jerusalem Post's sources, try to secretly extract stocks of enriched uranium from beneath rubble or from underground areas, bypassing U.S. and other surveillance. Satellite reports by the Institute for Science and International Security, the publication notes, document the construction of structures that may conceal certain areas from satellite observation, as well as earthworks at a distance from the main damaged parts of nuclear facilities.
Lack of IAEA access
Monitoring the situation is complicated by the lack of access for the International Atomic Energy Agency to Iranian nuclear facilities at least since the 12-day war in June 2025. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told the Board of Governors that the agency had received no information from Iran on the status of declared nuclear materials and facilities and had been unable to conduct on-site inspections.
Sources described preventing the restoration of facilities needed to convert enriched uranium into metal and develop nuclear warhead components as a separate task for Israeli intelligence. According to them, Iran has not yet made real progress in this direction. The publication notes that Iran's nuclear program has been set back by several years, but its surviving elements remain a vulnerability for Israel.
