Iran has new underground nuclear site, IAEA reveals

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/03/18/iran-has-new-underground-nuclear-site-iaea-reveals/

27 Comments

  1. “It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability, and then, STOP THE WAR!”

    — Trump, June 2025.

  2. “There are ​many questions that we will only elucidate ​when we ‌are able to go back” – yea, you’re never going to be allowed back in after all this, that much is clear

  3. AnnoyingCharlatan on

    In case no one clicked

    >Mr Grossi said IAEA inspectors had to cancel a visit, so do not know whether the new site is “simply an empty hall” or whether centrifuges have begun to be installed. “There are ​many questions that we will only elucidate ​when we ‌are able to go back,” he said.

  4. front_yard_duck_dad on

    They don’t just pop up overnight. ” New” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

  5. So is this just a headline to try and get some support for the war effort? I thought headlines were supposed to match the title of the reddit post.

    I’ll admit “Nuclear site or ‘empty hall’? Mystery of Iran’s new enrichment facility at Isfahan” isn’t nearly as exciting as “Iran has a new underground nuclear site”.

  6. PreviouslyMannara on

    > Iran informed the U.N. nuclear watchdog of the new facility ​in June and Grossi said his inspectors were in Isfahan ​later that month to see it but had to cancel the visit when the nuclear complex there was struck at the beginning of ​the 12-day war with Israel.

    Iran had already disclosed the existence of the new facility to the UN agency, but IAEA didn’t had the opportunity to inspect it because it got immediately bombed by Israel and USA.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iaea-does-not-know-status-new-iranian-enrichment-facility-isfahan-grossi-says-2026-03-18/

  7. GarbageCleric on

    This headline is totally deceptive. Iran informed the IAEA about this site in June, and IAEA inspectors were there that same month for the inspection, but then it was attacked, so they couldn’t actually do the inspection.

    >Iran informed the U.N. nuclear watchdog of the new facility ​in June and Grossi said his inspectors were in Isfahan ​later that month to see it but had to cancel the visit when the nuclear complex there was struck at the beginning of ​the 12-day war with Israel.

    >Grossi said because the inspectors ​had to cancel their visit, the agency does not know “whether it is ‌simply ⁠an empty hall” or hosts concrete pads awaiting the installation of centrifuges – the machines that enriched uranium for power plants and nuclear weapons – or whether some centrifuges had been ​installed.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iaea-does-not-know-status-new-iranian-enrichment-facility-isfahan-grossi-says-2026-03-18/

  8. But but it was all obliterated like no one has seen before, then Trump started a war to obliterate it even more, so how can it already be starting back up.