Israeli officials are claiming the Missile War with Iran set back the ability of Iran to pursue it’s nuclear weapons ambitions but are not confident Iran doesn’t possess weapons grade material. The administration of US President for Life hopeful Donald Trump stated the Iranian nuclear program has been set back by at least two years.
One of the multiple senior Israeli officials involved in the matter told ABC News that Israel has concluded that facilities at Fordo and Natanz were effectively destroyed in the U.S. bombing. But at Isfahan, where the stockpile is believed to be more protected and stored much deeper underground, there’s less certainty, and it’s possible some of the regime’s uranium — enriched to a near weapons-grade 60% — survived the attack, according to an official. ABCNews
On 21 June 2025 the US joined the Israeli Iran missile conflict by bombing the three major Iranian nuclear processing sites (AP). The touted bunker buster bomb was dropped on the Fordow nuclear enrichment site buried deep beneath the ground.
Trump claimed the Fordow site was “obliterated” (Axios) but it’s too early to make that call (Tressa Guenov).
Speaking of time; the US strikes come on the 9th day of the Israel Iran crisis and 21 days after the International Atomic Energy Administration report dated 31 May 2025.
“Iran can convert its current stock of 60 percent enriched uranium into 233 kg of WGU in three weeks at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), enough for 9 nuclear weapons, taken as 25 kg of weapon-grade uranium (WGU) per weapon. Iran could produce its first quantity of 25 kg of WGU in Fordow in as little as two to three days.” Institute for Science and International Security
- The United States May Destroy the Fordow Enrichment Plant. It Won’t Make the Iranian Nuclear Threat Go Away. The Washington Institute
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