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Posted on 08/07/2026 3:20:06 PM PDT by NoLibZone
The conflict may have slowed, but not stopped, Iran’s nuclear program, officials and experts said.
Chief among President Trump’s reasons for launching the war in Iran was preventing it from building a nuclear weapon. More than five months in, officials and experts say, the conflict may have slowed Iran’s nuclear program but not stopped it.
Because Iran has barred U.N. inspections of its most sensitive nuclear sites — a key part of any eventual peace deal — the precise fate of its highly enriched nuclear fuel is unknown. And despite strikes on three key nuclear sites in 2025 and 2026, Tehran appears to have retained a stockpile of enough near weapons-grade fuel to quickly develop as many as 10 nuclear bombs, according to U.N. inspectors.
So far, the war has shown that Mr. Trump’s “‘maximum pressure’ policies and military misadventures did not, and cannot, destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity,” Daryl G. Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, wrote in a recent analysis.
“The capability is largely still there,” said Ellie Geranmayeh, author of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Iran Nuclear Monitor. Here is a look at what we know about Iran’s three key nuclear sites.
The ancient city with half a ton of enriched uranium Iran stores most of its highly enriched uranium, which can fuel nuclear bombs, near the ancient city of Isfahan. In February, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear inspector, estimated its stockpile held about 970 pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent — enough to make nine or 10 atomic bombs within a few weeks of processing.
The Isfahan complex was heavily damaged during U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran in June 2025.
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I always refer to the NYT for up-to-date and accurate analysis of our most pressing internal and international problems. /S
Silly journalists. They still think that we believe them.
So the general gist of the story is that the Trump team was irresponsible for taking unnecessary military action against Iranian nuclear facilities that has left Iran with a dangerous supply of enriched uranium sufficient to build 10 nuclear weapons
Well that makes a lot of sense
And wasn’t the Times denying that Iran was working on a nuclear weapon
This is fair criticism.
It’s even less harsh than what we often see on FR.
Did Xi write this himself?
Why not drop bunker busters on the site entrances and be done with it (for a while, anyway)?
Silly journalists. They still think that we believe them.
So you don’t believe Trump has made any progress in slowing down Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Got it.
“”So far, the war has shown that Mr. Trump’s “‘maximum pressure’ policies and military misadventures did not, and cannot, destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity,” Daryl G. Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, wrote in a recent analysis.
“The capability is largely still there,” said Ellie Geranmayeh, author of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Iran Nuclear Monitor. Here is a look at what we know about Iran’s three key nuclear sites.
The ancient city with half a ton of enriched uranium Iran stores most of its highly enriched uranium, which can fuel nuclear bombs, near the ancient city of Isfahan. In February, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear inspector, estimated its stockpile held about 970 pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent — enough to make nine or 10 atomic bombs within a few weeks of processing.
The Isfahan complex was heavily damaged during U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran in June 2025.””
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I confess... that I’m a bit confused here. Why is the NYSlimes confirming that Iran was (and according to them, still is) a bona fide nuclear threat, and therefore... conclusively, that Trump was right to start this war to stop them? (so weird)
(Mr. Trump’s)
PRESIDENT TRUMP
You New York Times Democrat Propaganda Tools...
So why haven't they already?
Lol.
You win this thread.
Pleading for a deal with their knee pads on.
I believe so, yes.
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