Saving this for a blessed day when Iran goes nuclear.
> A VICTORY FOR ISRAEL
> Israel’s strikes keep Iran out of the nuclear club.
> As I have been arguing for more than a decade, the Iranian nuclear crisis was bound to end in military action. Simply acquiescing to a nuclear-armed Iran would have posed unacceptable risks.
Negotiating permanent limits on Iran’s nuclear program would have been the best outcome, but such a deal proved elusive after more than two decades of talks.
> A key question now is how much damage will Israel be able to inflict on Iran’s nuclear program? There are three key nuclear facilities in Iran: Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow. All of them were struck, but there is no word yet on the extent of the damage. Fordow is buried in the side of a mountain. It will be difficult for Israel to destroy the facility with airstrikes alone.
> How will Iran retaliate to Israel’s strikes? Many fear a wider war, but this is unlikely. Iran’s ability to retaliate has been badly degraded over the past year. Hamas and Hezbollah have been decimated in the conflicts that followed Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Israel has strong air and missile defenses, which were effective at shooting down the Iranian missile and drone attacks that occurred in April and October of last year. On June 13, Iran launched approximately 100 drones in retaliation to the Israeli attack, but some have been shot down, and there is no reported damage inside Israel.
> Critics of strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities have argued that any attack could cause Tehran to formally withdraw from the NPT and dash to a bomb. But Iran cannot build nuclear weapons without uranium enrichment facilities and material. If Israel’s strikes are successful, they will delay Iran’s program by at least a year or two.
A 5,000 year old civilization will surely lose patience and fold after a surprise attack.
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