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Iran still has ‘all the capabilities’ to build a bomb, claims former Mossad insider

Claim counters statements by Netanyahu and Trump that the nuclear weapons programme has been destroyed

June 24, 2025 16:42
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, during the National Day of Nuclear Technology (Image: Iranian Presidency Office)
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Sima Shine, a former senior staffer at Mossad and expert on Iran’s nuclear programme, has told the Telegraph that Iran is likely to have hidden thousands of centrifuges from air strikes and retains the ability to build a nuclear bomb.

She said: “I’m sure they have a hidden place somewhere with some hundreds, if not thousands of centrifuge[s] and they have material all there in several places all over Iran.

“They cannot do anything now, tomorrow, but in the future, they have all the capabilities [to build a bomb]”.

Her statements contradict recent declarations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, who have both confidently claimed to have destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities. 

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