The Epoch Times

Iran’s nuclear regulatory authority said early Sunday that there were “no signs of contamination” following the U.S. bomber strikes on three of the nation’s nuclear facilities. Iran’s National Nuclear Safety System Center, an arm of the independent Iran Nuclear Regulatory Authority, issued a statement carried by Iranian state media on its monitoring efforts as the dust was still settling from the massive U.S. strikes. It detected no radioactive release at any of the three facilities—Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz—that were bombed, the agency said. “There is no danger to the residents living around the aforementioned sites,” it added. Iran has only one active nuclear reactor, the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, which has not been a target of the Israeli or U.S. attacks. The facilities targeted so far have been sites where Iran was enriching (Fordow and Natanz) and converting uranium (Isfahan) and making the centrifuges for such enrichment (Isfahan). Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Commission also said that its monitors in the neighboring Gulf, to the west of Iran, had not detected any radiation after the U.S. strikes.

Despite the U.S. strikes on its facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan on Saturday, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran is vowing to continue its work. In a statement shared by Iran’s state-run PressTV, the Iranian nuclear agency called the recent attacks on its facilities a violation of international law. “The international community is expected to condemn this lawlessness based on jungle rules and to stand with Iran in asserting its legitimate rights,” the Iranian nuclear agency said. Even in the face of Israeli and now U.S. strikes, the Iranian nuclear agency said it would not allow the progress of its industry to be halted. “The organization has placed on its agenda all necessary actions to defend the rights of the noble Iranian people, including legal follow-up measures,” the agency added. On June 20, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said that the U.N. watchdog agency assessed that Iran had enough uranium to produce “several” nuclear warheads, but that the regime may not use them for nuclear weapons. With Iran being non-compliant with the IAEA inspections to confirm that its nuclear program remained peaceful, with no nuclear material being diverted for military purposes, U.S. President Trump had warned before the strikes, “Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left.”