Israel says Iran's nuclear programme was set back years, but initial US battle assessment casts doubt on public comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32212238

By MEE staff Published date: 24 June 2025 22:12 BST
Last update:~17:20 EDT

"CNN reported on Tuesday that an initial assessment of the strikes by the US Defence Intelligence Agency was that the main components of Iran’s nuclear programme were intact and likely only set back by months.

This flies in the face of Trump saying that the US air strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme. The White House trumpeted its bombing of Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz enrichment complexes as a major military feat that surprised Iran."

  • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m pretty sure that the military understands in general that the bunker busters don’t really work all that well.

    I think the more relevant factors in this calculation are (1) B2 is a technology from the 1980s, (2) B2 still looks fricken cool, (3) Tomahawk was also a big deal in the 1980s, (4) Israel already did all of the work suppressing air defenses, and finally (5) the big parade the week before kinda sucked.