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Eugene

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1. American insiders apparently have a different assessment.

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:48 PM

Jul 17

[link:|New U.S. assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites]

WASHINGTON — One of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States last month was mostly destroyed, setting work there back significantly. But the two others were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months if Iran wants it to, according to a recent U.S. assessment of the destruction caused by the military operation, five current and former U.S. officials familiar with the assessment told NBC News.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/new-us-assessment-finds-american-strikes-destroyed-only-one-three-iran-rcna218761

in short: one site destroyed; the other two degraded

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American insiders apparently have a different assessment. Eugene Jul 17 #1

"If Iran wants it to". The OP comes down to an assessment that Iran wouldn't want it to. Beastly Boy Jul 17 #2