Early US intelligence report suggests US strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months
Early US intelligence report suggests US strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months
The assessment found that at least some of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was moved out of multiple sites before the U.S. strikes and survived, according to the people, and it also found that Iran’s centrifuges are largely intact.
At the deeply buried Fordo uranium enrichment plant, the entrance collapsed and infrastructure was damaged, so that will take time to fix, but the underground infrastructure was not destroyed, according to one of the people. The person also said that previous assessments had warned of this outcome at Fordo.
The White House strongly pushed back on the assessment, calling it “flat-out wrong.”
. . . “The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH OCEANIA
Gee, I wonder why it might be important to have working OPSEC in the highest levels of your strategic decision making. Well, that ship has sailed, and probably cannot come back.
(Not that I'm in favor of bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, I'm just saying shit happens when you are incompetent. There is a deliberate confusion between saying "nuclear program" to mean nuclear activities like medicine which are perfectly normal and which lots of countries do, which is all Iran was doing with their uranium throughout all the middle of the 2010s, and nuclear activities trying to build a bomb. I don't know how much of what they're doing is the second thing, although it seems likely that it's nonzero, but I know that some is the first thing and Obama was able to talk them out of all of the second thing, and they agreed.)
Obama was able to talk them out of all of the second thing, and they agreed.
Like so many other things, this could be a motivation for Trump to undo things, regardless of understanding any of it. It's why he ran for President the first time, out of spite.
And was it worth it to start WW3? He's going to suggest using a nuke next, just watch
And now they're pissed off and look forward to using the bomb they develop.
It will not happen before khamenei dies. Hr is against the use of nukes
Hopefully Pakistan or North Korea have already given them a few while they develop their own.
It would be suicidal not to have nukes at this stage. American “deals” don’t mean anything. Israel / USA will always assassinate negotiators, use trickery and terrorism, launch surprise missile attacks during talks, and continue bombing and gaslighting the whole time they’re genociding you.
Actually Pakistan sold the centrifuge technology to Iran and NK, but the US has ensured they are no longer friendly to allow further assistance.
Iran just needs to hunker down and make it quickly like NK did if they want it.
China is pretty friendly to Pakistan they help develop their nukes in the Cold war, I'm guessing it's to buffer against indias.
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said that seven Spirit bombers were deployed to Iran, each with two crew members. He also confirmed that the attack package included U.S. submarines that launched 30 Tomahawk missiles at Iranian targets; he also noted the involvement of both fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft - including F/A-18s, F-22 Raptors, and F-35 Lightning IIs.
The exact cost of the mission remains unknown, but for context: each B-2 bomber is worth over $2 billion, an F-35 runs around $100 million, and the USS Carl Vinson — a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier — cost roughly $4.5 billion. Caine said that “more than 125 US aircraft participated in this mission”, so who knows how long the bill will be when it comes in. (source)
So worth it, brah.
Better than applying the money to socialist programs back home, for sure. (the ones still around)
funny thing is active members of the military already get UNIVERSAL discounted healthcare, aka tricare.
Relative to the B2, 4.5B$ seems cheap for a whole nuclear powered aircraft carrier
It gets a big discount for not being invisible.
an excuse to use the budget for that month.
"nuclear program"? Whatever happened to "nuclear weapons"? Rewriting the narrative already? Ah, we need gold to go back up everyone.
Most experts could have told the White House all this before it was done, these were widely reported in worldwide news a week before he did it
He has a problem: he can not finish the job as long as Iran and Israel stick to the ceasefire.
Israel never sticks to ceasefires. They are addicted to war.
Not at all. Oil didn't go up. This distraction didn't work as much as he wanted.
The only person that thought bunker busters would destroy a mountain was Trump.
The effectiveness of any strike can most easily be measured by the effectiveness of the counterattack
But Iran couldn't counterattack before the strike. Soo.... ?
The Iranian counterattack following the recent nuclear site strike was on par with their counterattack following Trump killing the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in January of 2020.
Limited response from Iran because of the limited damage done to Iran
Any day now since the eighties.
Anyway, Iran probably should get a few nukes and get them fast.
so it's now firnly back in thw biden era and trump can now unequivocally blame the status of their nuclear plans on his predecessor.
maybe this chump isn't as dumb as he seems.
That doesn’t make sense. Walk me through this…
Wow what a shocker
Unqualified and oblivious 🍊💩ler is unqualified and oblivious.
That’s sad, Iran having nukes is actually scary