“Atomic Energy” is concerned about an underground Iranian enrichment facility

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report on Iran seen by Reuters on Friday that it is “increasingly concerned” about an underground uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan that Iran announced last year, but did not allow the agency to inspect.

“The agency does not know the exact location of the facility... or its status for safeguards purposes, or whether it contains nuclear material,” the agency said in its quarterly report to member states, referring to the Isfahan fuel enrichment facility.

The agency urged Iran to take “gradual steps” to allow the return of its inspectors to the country’s main nuclear facilities, considering that their access to them is “essential,” according to “Agence France-Presse.”

The report stated that the Director-General of the United Nations agency “encourages Iran to consider technical and gradual measures that will create the conditions that will allow the agency’s inspectors to return to Iran.”

Since July 2025, Iran has been preventing visits by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to its nuclear facilities, after the bombing campaign launched by Israel for 12 days, and the United States joined it.

Yesterday (Thursday), US President Donald Trump abandoned the agreement with Iran, adhering to its blockade, and asked his deputy, J.D. Vance, who is leading the negotiations, to devote himself to internal issues, days after granting him the authority to negotiate.

Trump stressed the continuation of the blockade, and wrote on his “Truth Social” platform: “We do not need an agreement with Iran... We got their money... and we got their strait!” This came the day after a speech by Trump on Wednesday in which he said: “We have won... We must achieve a complete victory, not a 93 percent victory.”

In Tehran, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, said that the missile unit in the Revolutionary Guard is ready for “new surprises.” The head of the Basij apparatus, Hussein Taeb, also vowed a harsher response and expressed his adherence to Tehran’s seven conditions before negotiations, amid unconfirmed reports of the arrival of a Qatari delegation to Tehran.

Iran's Deputy Chief of Staff, Kayumarth Heydari, spoke of a response “without geographic restrictions” and a “bank of targets” that goes beyond the arena of the previous war. The Supreme Leader’s advisor, Muhammad Mukhber, said that the Supreme Leader’s latest directive implied lifting restrictions on the range of missiles.

The government Mehr Agency broadcast a video clip, which it said was of testing “new missiles.” He called on the “Leadership Council of Experts” to consider exiting the Non-Proliferation Treaty and review the defense doctrine.

During his meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif called for dialogue and restraint, while Pezeshkian said, “The truth is with Iran, and the enemy will kneel.”

Of the 14 prime ministers in the history of Israel, 5 generals advanced to the position of prime minister, including two (Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak) who were former army commanders. If Gadi Eisenkot is able to form a government, he will become the third chief of staff to stand at the head of the ruling establishment in the Hebrew state.

Those close to Eisenkot (66 years old) say that he studied and searched deeply into the history of the generals of Israeli politics, and decided that the ideal that he wants to be inspired by and leave a mark and impact like him, is Yitzhak Rabin (1922 - 1995).

In the history of Israel, a number of leaders appear who made their way through contradictory concepts and beliefs. But the Israeli model chose a fanatical and arrogant security policy that kept Israel in a permanent state of war. At the top of the list of generals in Israeli politics, the name of Yigal Allon appears, followed by Rabin, then Barak, and Ariel Sharon.

The new Fifth General Eisenkot puts the four models in front of him; Because he knows the public is divided over his ancestry.