Israel believes that Iran could potentially retrieve enriched uranium buried beneath one of the three facilities struck by US forces last month, according to a senior Israeli official.

Initially US President Donald Trump claimed the operation was a total success, but officials on both sides of the Atlantic are now acknowledging that significant quantities of enriched uranium may have withstood the bombardment.

Israel believes at least some of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was buried by U.S. strikes and not destroyed or moved beforehand.