2/2: IRAN: THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS MAKERS. ANDREA STRICKER FDD
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batson with my colleague, Andrea Stricker. |
| 0:06.4 | She's a research fellow and deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Biodefense Program |
| 0:11.0 | at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:14.0 | We've gone through the names of nine men who are reported KIA in the present conflict. |
| 0:20.5 | I want to tuck up some details here about sites. First of all, |
| 0:23.7 | the big sites, is Fahana, Tans, and Partchen. All of them associated with uranium ore, yes, but at the |
| 0:31.9 | same time linking them to producing weapons-grade ore that can be used in a bomb. Andrea, you've reported |
| 0:41.1 | for some time with your colleagues that Iran had reached the 60 percent level, which is very |
| 0:46.4 | close to the 90 you need for a bomb. The three sites that I just named, Isfahan, Parchen and Natanz, |
| 0:52.7 | were they all participating in that? |
| 0:55.5 | Thank you, John. |
| 0:57.1 | The Israelis appear to have hit several of these sites. |
| 1:01.5 | And while we don't know much about whether they've taken out the weaponization-related |
| 1:05.4 | sites, there are limited reports that they have hit Partchinin, which housed weaponization related buildings, |
| 1:13.3 | as well as the headquarters of Iran's nuclear weapons program in Tehran called SP&D. |
| 1:19.7 | There's been video and photos circulating that those buildings are no more. |
| 1:24.8 | So far, we've seen some damage at the Natanz enrichment site, as well as the |
| 1:30.2 | Esfahan conversion site. And it appears that Israel may have struck some auxiliary support functions |
| 1:38.4 | of the Fordow. That's the big one, the deeply underground enrichment site, but hasn't yet gone after that |
| 1:45.2 | site fully. |
| 1:47.0 | And centrifuges at Natanz, it is Fahan and Partchin, or just two of them? |
| 1:52.9 | The Natanz enrichment site has a pilot above ground facility with under 2,000 centrifuges. |
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