Washington | The chief United Nations nuclear inspector has widened the divide with the Trump administration over how severely the United States set back Iran’s nuclear program, declaring that it could be enriching uranium in a “matter of months” – even as President Donald Trump repeated his claim that Iran had lost interest in the effort.

“Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview with CBS News that aired on Sunday (Monday AEST).