#iran-nuclear-program

#iran-nuclear-program

As long as the ayatollah is going to continue to try to rebuild the system that he said he wasn't going to do, that's why we ended the 12-day war, because they said they were done trying to build a nuclear weapon, yet they're obviously trying to rebuild it. We're not going to let that happen.

The President's been clear from the beginning, as he was before Midnight Hammer. Iran will not have nuclear weapons capability. And so they can either negotiate on that front, or we have other options,

What we were targeting was the capacity to make more of those, of that enriched uranium, and also the attempt to weaponize it. There's the enriched core of uranium, but you have to put a weapon around it. You know, these balls that you see in all these movies? That's the weapon around it. And then you have the missiles to carry that weapon. That's what we struck at.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also spoke at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. Pezeshkian told the chamber that Iran has "no intention" to build a nuclear bomb. "I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb. We do not seek to build a nuclear bomb. We do not seek nuclear weapons," Pezeshkian said in his speech.

In less than a fortnight, Israel brought to its knees a major regional adversary, geographically nearly 75 times its size and 1,000 miles away. As we learned on a recent trip to Israel with the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, Israel-with crucial U.S. support-crippled Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities, dismantled its air defenses, and decapitated its command and control. At the Pentagon's request, Israeli pilots cleared the way for U.S. B-2 bombers.

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Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, tried to quell the backlash by saying the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would not be visiting any of the bombed sites and that discussions about these were still to be had. He said the return had been endorsed by Iran's supreme national security council and that the inspectors would be allowed to visit the Bushehr nuclear site to oversee refuelling only a role required by the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

For Netanyahu, there are domestic political concerns that are influencing his enthusiasm about proceeding with a ceasefire [in Gaza] or formal negotiations with Iran, Jason Campbell, Senior Fellow at The Middle East Institute, told The Cipher Brief. I think that will continue to be a flashpoint in his discussions with President Trump.

The conclusion many states may now draw is that complying with the NPT is no longer a guarantee of nuclear security.

U.S. officials state that airstrikes inflicted significant damage on Iran's Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites, though actual destruction varies in assessment.

The Trump administration revealed that the airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program were years in the making, employing advanced bunker-busting bombs for deep-target strikes.

Stovepiping—streamlining information that confirms bias—was used by the Bush administration during the Iraq War and appears to be employed by Trump today.