Nuclear Watchdog Reports Extensive Damage From Strikes

The US bombings "directly impacted" Iran's Fordo fuel enrichment facility, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Sunday. The strikes caused extensive damage at the Isfahan and Natanz sites, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told the UN Security Council in its emergency meeting, the Washington Post reports. "At this time, no one, including the IAEA, is in the position to assess the underground damage at Fordo," he said. There has been no increase in off-site radiation levels at the three nuclear sites, Grossi said he was told by Iranian officials. Iran is trying to assess the damage, per the New York Times.

In other developments:

• Damage assessments: A senior US official told the Times that the strike on Fordo, the best-protected and most critical target, did not destroy it. But it was heavily damaged, the official said. Two Israeli officials said it appeared that Iran had moved equipment, as well as uranium, away from Fordo before the US attack.
• Iran's ambitions: In a contentious interview, Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that the bombing was justified even if President Trump didn't have evidence that Iran was working to weaponize its nuclear stockpile, per the Post. The goal was to degrade Iran's nuclear weapon "ambitions," Rubio said on CBS' Face the Nation.

• Israel follows up: The Israeli military said it struck surface-to-surface missile warehouses in the Iranian city of Yazd on Sunday. "Throughout the day, we continued to deepen the degradation of" Iran's capabilities, a spokesperson said, per CNN.
• Security Council meets: Russia, China, and Pakistan proposed a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Middle East, per France24. It was not clear when there would be a vote. The acting US representative told the Security Council that Iran has "long obfuscated" its nuclear weapons program, per the Post. Dorothy Shea urged that Iran be pressed to "end its 47-year effort to eradicate the state of Israel; to terminate its drive for nuclear weapons; to stop targeting American citizens and interests; and to negotiate peace in good faith."

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