
Posted: 12th April 2026
Iran building roadblocks at nuclear site to prevent ground attack.
Satellite images show defences at Isfahan, where half of Tehran’s highly
enriched uranium is thought to be stored.
Telegraph 10th April 2026
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/10/iran-roadblocks-nuclear-site-ground-attack-usa-israel/
Former US envoys who dealt with Iran have said that the US-Israeli attack
on Iran and Tehran’s subsequent closure of the strait of Hormuz have
given Iran new tools and resolve to resist pressure to shutter its nuclear
programme. Two senior negotiators for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA), the Obama-era agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear uranium
enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief, said the Trump
administration’s war had handed Iran a coveted weapon by demonstrating
its ability to cut off the strait of Hormuz, an economic chokehold that one
negotiator said would help Iran “balance the asymmetry of power” with
the US. “This administration, to say it more politely, cannot unsoil the
bed,” said Alan Eyre, a former diplomat who helped negotiate the JCPOA.
“There’s no way to get back to the status quo ante before this war
started.”
Guardian 10th April 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/middle-east-crisis-has-given-iran-new-way-to-resist-nuclear-limits-say-former-us-iran-envoys