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Jun 30, 2025
US president denies multiple reports and accounts that say US strikes did not destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities.. (See image source, image credits, and description in “Al Jazeera” article below.) ~llaw
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
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And the Trump denials about the Iran/USA/Israel day-to-day facts relating to the “obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear facilities of by now well-known facts from knowledgeable sources everywhere except, of course, from the White House, his questionable and impossible to believe claims continues on, obviously creating more world-wide dissension and division on a daily basis.
For a more local understanding of these nuclear issues from the U.S. media, see The New York Times and the Washington Post (and others) in TODAY’s NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS DIGEST below . . .
Trump seems to be digging himself a deeper hole of international disbelief, not to mention his credibility with the American people, including millions of those who voted for him and may well be having serious second thoughts about his veracity, mental capacity, as well as his questionable ability to run the country in an acceptable way in not only ia possible war-like scenarios, but in general . . . ~llaw
Trump reiterates Iran nuclear talking points despite swirling questions
US president denies multiple reports and accounts that say US strikes did not destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Published On 29 Jun 202529 Jun 2025
United States President Donald Trump has reiterated a vow not to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons following the end of Iran and Israel’s recent 12-day conflict, in which the US militarily intervened, and has stuck closely to his narrative as questions remain about the impact of US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.
On the Fox News programme Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Trump repeated his claim that Iran was “weeks away” from making the weapons before Israel attacked on June 13. Nine days later, the US targeted Iran’s top three nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
Both US intelligence and the United Nations nuclear watchdog have ascertained that Tehran was not building a nuclear arsenal. Iran has long insisted that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes only.
While Trump has said that the sites were “obliterated” by the US bombers, in the wake of the attacks, several major news organisations, citing intelligence sources, have reported that the US strikes did not destroy the facilities.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that it was unclear what damage had been sustained at the Fordow plant, which houses the bulk of Iran’s most highly enriched uranium needed to make a nuclear weapon.
On Sunday, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Iran could restart uranium enrichment in a matter of months, while Trump insisted over the weekend that the attacks had set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back “by decades”.
According to an IAEA report last month, Iran has more than 400kg (880lb) of uranium enriched to up to 60 per cent purity, close to the roughly 90 per cent weapons grade – which is enough, if enriched further, for nine nuclear weapons.
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All Things Nuclear
NEWS
Nuclear watchdog agency’s general director says Iran’s capabilities suffered “severe damage”
CBS News
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U.N. Inspector Says Iran Could Enrich Nuclear Fuel in ‘Matter of Months’
The New York Times
“Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the …
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WUNC
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Nuclear Power
NEWS
Trump Wants to Expand Nuclear Power. It Won’t Be Easy. – WSJ
Wall Street Journal
U.S. nuclear–power plant construction faded in the 1990s. The U.S. has added only three reactors since then—one in Tennessee and two in Georgia …
U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran could enrich uranium again in “a matter of months” – NPR
NPR
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CBS that Iran had a “a very vast ambitious” nuclear …
Google to Buy Power From Nuclear Fusion. The ‘Longer Term’ Is Getting Closer. – Barron’s
Barron’s
Every nuclear plant in the world today is powered by fission reactions, which generate energy by splitting the nucleus of an atom. Fusion, by contrast …
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
Niigata holds first public hearing on nuclear reactor restart plan – The Japan Times
The Japan Times
… reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. … An emergency evacuation plan has also been approved.
Carolinas heatwave prompts rare emergency power order by US energy department
Mooresville Tribune
“This power under the Federal Power Act is an emergency power. It’s … nuclear power plant. Trump says Iran and Israel to have a phased-in …
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
Sleeper cells and threat warnings: how the US-Iran conflict is spinning up fear
The Guardian
… threats to national security that we are only partially prepared for.” For example, recent “war on terror”-styled reporting from Fox News, an …
UK, France, Germany condemn threats against IAEA head after Iran newspaper calls for his arrest
Reuters
Britain, France and Germany denounced threats against the head of the U.N. nuclear … Israel and Hamas at War · Japan · Middle East · Ukraine and …
Seizing Zaporizhzhia: A Meltdown in Nuclear Governance | Global Policy Journal
Global Policy Journal
… nuclear governance begins to fracture. Yet among them, one threat quietly festers in a war zone on the east bank of the Dnipro River: the …
Nuclear War
NEWS
Trump reiterates Iran nuclear talking points despite swirling questions – Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
During the attack on the sites, reports emerged that Iran had removed the enriched uranium from Fordow, but Trump claimed that was false. “It’s a very …
Intercepted call of Iranian officials downplays damage of U.S. attack – The Washington Post
The Washington Post
… nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected, said four people familiar with the classified …
Nuclear threat is still before us. But we can go from crisis to conversation on Iran. | Opinion
USA Today
Dialogue, such as the proposed “Oppenheimer Dinner,” is necessary to initiate solutions and discuss the positive aspects of nuclear energy. The war in …
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
Wyoming’s Heart Mountain Formed By The Two Largest Landslides In Earth’s History
Cowboy State Daily
… Yellowstone supervolcano, and … Around 2.1 million years ago, the Yellowstone caldera underwent one of the largest eruptions in its history.