00:00You have described the damage inflicted by the United States and Israel on Iran's nuclear program as being very, very substantial.
00:10Would you go as far as to say it's been obliterated?
00:14Well, I think there are some unknowns still that would lead me to stick with what I originally assessed as very, very substantial.
00:23That's a lot, obviously.
00:25We don't know, though, how much was done inside the mountain of Fordow.
00:29I think, again, very significant, but that will require some time to determine.
00:35And we're not sure also whether there might be some of the highly enriched uranium, the 60 percent enriched uranium that may have been stored elsewhere outside of Natanz, Fordow and possibly Esfahan, as well as some centrifuges that could enrich it further, of course, to weapons grade being over 90 percent.
00:55So I think that's the reason for hedging a bit on this.
00:58The bomb damage assessment process takes time.
01:02It takes all sources of intelligence, everything that you can bring together and synthesize, integrate, to reach a conclusion about how significant the damage actually has been and whether there still is some enrichment capacity and some highly enriched uranium to enrich.
