No communication from Iran to stop cooperation, IAEA says

US President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed reports that Iran had moved its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium from the Fordow nuclear facility ahead of the American airstrikes.

"The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!" Trump wrote on Truth Social, appearing to rebut a Financial Times report citing European intelligence sources who believed the material was not at Fordow at the time of the strikes.

European intelligence services believe Iran’s stockpile of 408 kilograms of near weapons-grade uranium was not located at the Fordow nuclear facility during last weekend’s US military strikes, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

The newspaper cited two people briefed on preliminary intelligence assessments.

Iran’s ambassador to France said the Islamic Republic has never pursued nuclear weapons.

“Nuclear weapons have no place in our defense doctrine,” Mohammad Amin-Nejad said Thursday.

Israeli lawmaker and former defense minister Benny Gantz rebuked Iran’s Supreme Leader for boasting of Israeli defeat.

“Come out of your underground hideout and see what harm and defeat you’ve brought on your own people,” he wrote in a Farsi-language message on X.

“A liar is the enemy of God,” he added.

His post came after Ali Khamenei sais in a video message from an undisclosed place that Israel was “nearly brought to its knees” under Iranian strikes.
“Despite all its noise and claims, the Zionist regime was nearly crushed under the strikes of the Islamic Republic,” Khamenei said.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed on Thursday that Mohammad Saeed Izadi, the commander of the Quds Force’s Palestine branch, was killed in Israeli airstrikes.