"Craters
are visible at the
Fordo site, Iran’s main location for enriching uranium to 60%. Entrances
to tunnels used for the storage of
enriched material appear to have been hit [at Isfahan, as had buildings]
related to the uranium conversion process. At Natanz [the
fuel enrichment plant had] been hit again."
"[But] no one [including International Atomic Energy Agency,
was] in a position to assess the underground damage at Fordo."
"[Calling for inspectors to be allowed back] to Iran’s nuclear sites and
account for the stockpiles of uranium, including, most importantly, the
400kg enriched to 60%."
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general, U.N.'s IAEA
"The fundamental reality remains
that military action alone can only roll back the program by degrees,
not eliminate it fully."
"[The
success of the American attacks, particularly at the Fordo plant], is
not immediately apparent. Imagery can’t show much about the
damage down at the centrifuge enrichment hall, so the U.S. and Israel
will be relying heavily on intelligence from inside the Iranian system"
"[But even if the destruction
was widespread], Iran retains extensive expertise that will allow it to
eventually reconstitute what aspects of the program have been damaged
or destroyed."
"The Iranian nuclear program is decades old and draws on extensive
Iranian indigenous expertise. The physical elimination of the
program’s infrastructure — and even the assassination of Iranian
scientists — will not be sufficient to destroy the latent knowledge that
exists in the country."
Darya Dolzikova, senior research fellow, Royal United Services Institute think tank, London
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| A man walks past a billboard displaying images of top Iranian commanders and
scientists killed in Israeli strikes early Friday, in Tehran, Iran,
Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) |
Just
as there is no way to obliterate the fixation of the Islamic Republic
of Iran's desired destruction of Israel, no method exists to destroy the
obdurate determination of the Ayatollahs and the Islamic Republican
Guard Corps, dedicated to mastering and producing the methodology and
materials required to produce atomic bombs, nuclear warheads and their
medium- to long-range ballistic delivery systems. North Korea developed
its nuclear program in defiance of world opinion because paranoia drove
it to have that ultimate weapon.
The
Islamic Republic of Iran would not be the only Islamic nation in
possession of nuclear weapons, politically unstable Pakistan has its
nuclear arsenal, and its deadly conflicts with India, another nuclear
country, constitutes a risk of spectacular proportions. The Islamic
regime in Iran is the world's leading state supporter of terrorism. And
its direct threats against the existence of other countries -- most
notably Israel, but the United States as well -- make it an imperative
that their aspiration of nuclear 'defence' be denied.
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| People watch from a bridge as flames from an Israeli attack rise from Sharan
Oil depot, following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15,
2025. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS |
Israel's
daring aerial attacks that began over a week ago targeting the minds
that promote nuclear weaponry, their military, their nuclear sites,
weapons bases, airfields and naval ports in the interests of preventing
Iran from taking the imminent final steps to ownership of the nuclear
prize, was a start, one long overdue, given the force of Iran's
malevolent actions through its terrorist proxies and its ultimate goal
soon to be realized of having the means to obliterate Israel from the
Middle East.
U.S.
President Donald Trump's telegraphed and well-publicized messages that
he might and he might not, but likely would proceed in aiding Israel in
its goal of destroying the nuclear enrichment sites that augured ill for
its existence, served to give advance notice to Iran that it would be
well advised in preservation of its goal, to remove the advanced
centrifuges and the enriched uranium stockpiled in the three nuclear
sites, Fordo, Isfahan and and Natanz as a precaution. The mystery now is
where they have been taken to.
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| A combination picture shows satellite images over Fordow underground complex,
before and after the U.S. struck the underground nuclear facility, near
Qom, Iran, June 20, 2025 (L) and June 22, 2025. via Maxar Technologies |
Their
very existence and the determination by the theocratic regime to
continue its mission of nuclear thrust guarantees that the ceasefire
that President Trump demanded would lead to a further commencement by
Iran of its nuclear program at a time and a place of its choosing. It
has, to the present, forged on, despite censure and sanctions, setbacks
and opposition, and will continue, in the belief that it pursues a
sacred mission dear to Islam in the destruction of Israel and by
extension all non-faithful.
A
cataclysmic upheaval caused by a nuclear detonation would have the
effect of hastening the appearance of the Hidden Mahdi upon which event
Armageddon would occur, destroying everything and everyone on Earth. Muhammad al-Mahdi, worshipped in Shi'ite Islam, believed
to be the twelfth and last Imam, destined to reappear and bring justice
to the world. Justice comprised of mass death to non-Muslims and any
Muslims failing to follow Shi'ism for only they will be elevated to a
heavenly state, all others will perish.
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| Iranian flags fly as fire and smoke from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot
rise, following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025.
Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS |
This
ultimate reward for faith requited yearned for and eagerly awaited. The
means by which the Islamic Republic can hasten the arrival of the
Hidden Imam, is to trigger a massive upheaval, awakening the
present-but-not-present Imam to usher the Shia faithful to heaven and
punish all others for their untoward unwillingness to embrace Islam, the
religion of peace.