Posted on 06/27/2025 6:33:20 AM PDT by texas booster
Leaked defense intelligence documents obtained by CNN allege that last Saturday night’s strike against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure only set the country’s nuclear program back a few months.
However, the CIA reported this week that it would take “years” for Iran to rebuild its nuclear capabilities.
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00:00 Introduction and Initial Reactions
00:32 Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Strike
01:00 Public and Political Reactions
02:25 Rebuilding Challenges for Iran
04:17 Strategic Implications and Future Concerns
05:57 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Guess who kept Saddam and Syria from from going at it a 2nd time.
The danger in any future nuclear program in Iran is that instead of building future sites in remote regions, they may decide to build underground in urban areas, making another B 2 strike impossible.
These Ayatollahs love to take hostages, it’s their modus operandi, and with their inherent lack of respect for human life, they could very easily use their own populations as hostages.
We would know through satellite data what they’re doing, but next time a ground invasion might be inevitable.
Regime change should be our objective, even if we say it isn’t.
It's not like it would be Iran's first CIA driven regime change...
No problem. Offer a short window to allow evacuation of civilians but not long enough to remove material and bomb away. Sort of like 48hours and bomb after 24 like Trump just did. Offer an out but Keep the element of surprise. Based on his track record, I’d leave sooner than later.
How many times are CNN’s lies going to be repeated?
We should offer Iran a chance to have strict, independent inspections to prevent them from trying to build a bomb again. If they turn down that offer, we should assure them that in the absence of other reliable information, we will accept statements of Israeli intelligence as true and correct, and will bomb any facility Israel identifies as being used for bomb research or development.
Outrageous? Well, they had a choice of independent inspections. Any bombing casualties or destruction is a result of their choice.
Let's be deceitful about our intentions and gaslight people about it.
That's the Western neo-liberal mindset in a nutshell
Honesty in politics is not only rare and unusual, it can be deadly.
Why deal with all the hostility that will come with an honest assessment of reality when the safety and security of America and the Free World is at stake?
The Ayatollahs were honest about their intentions, and look what happened to them.
This might work if we have another president like Trump when the time comes.
Yes, they’ve been doing that since the Dulles brothers in the 1940s and in a perfect world we could stop doing this, maybe.
Regime change should be our objective, even if we say it isn’t.It's not like it would be Iran's first CIA driven regime change…
There’s no gainsaying that the CIA installed the Shah whom the Ayatola overthrew. I will add that my uncle told me that he had commercial dealings in pre-ayatolah Iran, and he asserted that the shah’s regime was unstable and my uncle didn’t think it would be safe for him to go back to Iran.Jimmy Carter basically pulled the plug on the Shah, and the ayatollah took over. That was then, and this is now. Just think what Iran has gone thru since then! The thanks Carter got from the Ayatollah was the takeover of our embassy, and months of TV coverage entitled, “America Held Hostage.”
During the Reagan Administration, not too much was publicly made of the fact that the US Navy eviscerated Iran’s navy - but that happened.
Subsequently Iran went to war with Saddam’s Iraq, and an awful lot of Iranians got drafted as cannon fodder and killed. Which was never going to happen to the citizens of a pro-American Iran under the Shah. America would either have influenced a peace deal - or assured that Iran wasn’t on the ropes in any fight with Saddam. Instead of withdrawing US sales of spare parts for the F-14s the Shah had bought.
. . . and American economic sanctions against Iran wouldn’t have happened either. Under the Shah, IIRC, Iran engaged in commerce with Israel.
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