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."
The Iranians would have been terminally stupid if they hadn’t moved out anything that’s not bolted down (and even some that is) from the known locations in the days before the attacks. The IDF was openly demanding the US to bomb those sites, so they knew they were in the crosshairs. And if the only wrapped it up and buried the stuff in the sand somewhere.
The US might have damaged the location, but believing they had in any significant form damaged the program is moot. On the contrary, Iran now has the irrefutable proof that the US does not care even about their own secret services report that Iran had given up (or at least was not actively working on) on the bomb. Now they have the incentive to actually build it so they can use it as a deterrent and if needed, in self-defence.