About ten days after the bombing, doubt still remains. The Iranian nuclear program has been delayed by approximately two years by the American strikes decided by Donald Trump, according to American intelligence, said the Pentagon on Wednesday.
“We have delayed their program from at least one to least one to two years, this is what the Ministry’s intelligence services” said, “said Pentagon Senan Parnell spokesperson. “We think it’s probably closer to two years,” he added.
Since the American bombings against the nuclear sites of Fordo, Natanz and Ispahan about ten days ago, in support of the Israeli offensive, the question of their efficiency remains uncertain.
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Donald Trump repeats that Tehran’s nuclear program was “destroyed” or delayed “several decades”. His Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth praised at the end of June “a decisive military action” which “created the conditions to end the war” between Israel and Iran. “By decimating, destroying, destroying – choose the word – Iranian nuclear capacities,” he said.
But a first top secret preliminary report of American intelligence, which the American press reported last week, established that the strikes against Iran had only penalized its nuclear program for a few months, without completely destroying it.
Iran has just rejected a request from the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), Rafael Grossi, visiting his bombed nuclear installations, in order to be able to establish what happened to his uranium stock enriched at a level close to the design threshold of an atomic bomb.
Rafael Grossi estimated that Iran had technical capacities to start enriching uranium in “a few months” again.