UN atomic watchdog chief travels to Iran, grapples with Tehran’s escalating nuclear program [Video]

• Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog, visited Iran on Monday,
• Grossi has cautioned that Iran possesses enough enriched uranium to potentially create multiple nuclear bombs.
• Challenges include uncertainties about clandestine enrichment activities and disruptions in surveillance by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog traveled Monday to Iran, where his agency faces increasing difficulty in monitoring the Islamic Republic’s rapidly advancing nuclear program as tensions remain high in the wider Middle East over the Israel-Hamas war.

Rafael Mariano Grossi already has warned Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels to make “several” nuclear bombs if it chose to do so. He has acknowledged the agency can’t guarantee that none of Iran’s centrifuges may have been peeled away for clandestine enrichment.

Those challenges now find themselves entangled in attacks between Israeland Iran, with the city of Isfahan apparently coming under Israeli fire in recent weeks despite it being surrounded by sensitive nuclear …