Monday, June 23, 2025

And? As people warned

 


that was the risk

in doing what we did.


Satellites show damage to Iran's nuclear program,

 but experts say it's not destroyed

NPR 06/22/25


There would have been nothing wrong

with trying a sabotage attack (or three)

or letting the Israelis use their bunker busters first.


"At the end of the day there are some really important things that haven't been hit," says Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, who tracks Iran's nuclear facilities. "If this ends here, it's a really incomplete strike."


(It aint like we got 20 more GBU57s just laying around.

"Scully, Rachel (17 June 2025). "What is a 'bunker buster' bomb?". The Hill. Retrieved 22 June 2025. As of 2015, Boeing had delivered at least 20 of the bombs. While the exact size of the MOP stockpile is not known, it's understood to be relatively small.)


"In particular, Lewis says 

the strike doesn't seem to have touched 

Iran's stocks of highly enriched uranium."


"Today, it still has that material 

and we still don't know where it is," he says.


"I think you have to assume that significant amounts of this 

enriched uranium still exist, 

so this is not over by any means," 

agrees David Albright

the president of 

the Institute for Science and International Security, 

which has closely tracked Iran's nuclear program for years."


(I Like him a lot.

Says whats up.

Not what the politicians want you to hear.


"The independent assessments stand in stark contrast

 to congratulatory statements from the Trump administration 

in the wake of the strikes."


They were wanting you to think 

it was over

when in fact

it is just now getting started.


Seems like something 

the false prophet would do,

don't ya think?




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