Iran could recover some uranium after US strike, Israeli official says

The US has insisted that Iran's nuclear facilities were completely 'obliterated' during strikes in June.

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The official told US reporters that reaching the enriched uranium at Isfahan would be extremely difficult and any attempt would prompt renewed Israeli strikes.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that US air and missile strikes on Iran in June "obliterated" the country's nuclear facilities, even as some US intelligence agencies have taken a more cautious view.

Iran denies seeking to develop nuclear weapons and says its enrichment of uranium is for peaceful purposes.

The senior Israeli official - who declined to be named - said at a briefing in Washington that intelligence indicated that much of Iran's enriched uranium was buried at Isfahan, which was struck by submarine-launched cruise missiles during "Operation Midnight Hammer" on 22 June.