Iran voices ‘doubts’ over durability of truce: report

Iran is highly doubtful that Israel will maintain the ceasefire that ended an air war between the two countries, Iranian armed forces Chief of Staff told Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman yesterday, according to Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency.

"Since we have complete doubts about the enemy's (Israel) adherence to its commitments, including the ceasefire, we are prepared to give it a strong response if it repeats the aggression," Abdolrahim Mousavi said.

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium "in a matter of months," despite damage to several nuclear facilities from US and Israeli attacks, CBS News said Saturday.

Israel launched a bombing campaign on Iranian nuclear and military sites on June 13. The United States subsequently bombed three key facilities used for Tehran's atomic program.

IAEA chief warns Tehran can enrich uranium for a bomb within months

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the extent of the damage to the nuclear sites is "serious," but the details are unknown. US President Donald Trump insisted Iran's nuclear program had been set back "decades."

But Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said "some is still standing."

"They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that," Grossi said Friday, according to a transcript of the interview released Saturday.

Another key question is whether Iran was able to relocate some or all of its estimated 408.6-kilo (900-pound) stockpile of highly enriched uranium before the attacks.

Meanwhile, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said yesterday that Israel's attack on the Evin Prison in Tehran on June 23 killed 71 people, reports Reuters.