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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country's nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes were necessary to preempt that outcome.

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But US intelligence assessments had reached a different conclusion " not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing, according to four people familiar with the assessment.

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'Now, after days of Israeli airstrikes, US intelligence officials believe that so far, Israel may have set back Iran's nuclear program by only a matter of months, according to one of those people, a US official.

Even as Israel has done significant damage to Iran's facility at Natanz, which houses centrifuges necessary to enrich uranium, a second, heavily fortified enrichment site at Fordow has remained effectively untouched.

Israel lacks the capability to damage Fordow without specific US weapons and aerial support, defense experts say.

"Israel can hover over those nuclear facilities, render them inoperable, but if you really want to dismantle them it's either a US military strike or a deal," said Brett McGurk, a former top diplomat to the Middle East under the Trump and Biden administrations and a CNN analyst.'

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-17 12:50 PM | Reply

Donald Trump, the Great Peacemaker, is already waging war with Iran.

If anyone wants to stop those American jets they had better do so within the next twelve hours or so.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-17 12:54 PM | Reply

These are the same people that said Russia would over run Ukraine in 2 weeks.

Or that Iraq had biochemical weapons.

Or that hunter biden's laptop was a Russian op.

LOL US intelligence is as smart and on top of it as US Lumpers.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-17 01:08 PM | Reply

IAMRUNT's child-raping hero said he'd end the Russia/Ukraine war on day one. LOL

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-17 01:11 PM | Reply

Number Two son play both sides against middle... where there is no responsibility for anything.

He would rather sit than stand.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-17 01:17 PM | Reply

I wished that Iran would get a nuke or a few to stop rogue nations from bothering them. Would make me happy.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-17 01:23 PM | Reply

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