Posted on 06/25/2025 1:45:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. strikes had destroyed a facility that is key to producing a nuclear weapon. He railed against a less optimistic (ANONYMOUSLY SOURCED) U.S. intelligence report.
President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio made their most detailed case yet on Wednesday for why they believe the American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities dealt a fatal blow to the country’s ambitions, pushing back on the findings of a U.S. intelligence report and statements from international nuclear inspectors.
While Mr. Trump largely repeated his arguments that the facilities were “obliterated,” Mr. Rubio stepped in with a more detailed description of why he thought the Iranians were set back for years, rather than by only a few months as the preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency report said ("according to officials familiar with the findings").
His argument centered on the belief that a “conversion facility” — which is key to converting nuclear fuel into the form needed to produce a nuclear weapon — was destroyed. The facility, in Isfahan, is where enriched uranium gas has been converted into solid materials, and ultimately a metal, that can be used to fabricate a nuclear bomb or a warhead.
Israel reported hitting the facility, and an associated laboratory for turning the fuel to metal, and The New York Times described the hit at the time. Independent analysts believe the plant was severely damaged.
“You can’t do a nuclear weapon without a conversion facility,” said Mr. Rubio, who serves simultaneously as interim national security adviser. “We can’t even find where it is, where it used to be on the map,” he added, speaking of the conversion facility. “The whole thing is blackened out. It’s gone. It’s wiped out.”
Satellite photographs show extensive destruction, but not until international nuclear inspectors are allowed on...
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As Dan Bongino used to say on his show, "No matter how much you hate these people, you don't hate them enough."
NYT?
I shall await real journalism by competent and non-lying journalists.
I think it is important to know what lies they’re telling today, because half the country believes them.
It doesn’t take an expert to see before and after pictures to make a conclusion. And the shock waves that traveled downward destroyed anything that wasn’t pulverized.
“You can’t do a nuclear weapon without a conversion facility,
false
Iran has all (or almost all) of its 60% U-235.
It almost certainly has some of its latest model centrifuges still intact.
Iran retains its know-how.
Iran can probably produce one bomb a year for about a decade.
Mullah’s just bought a couple nukes from the NORK’s.
Just say....Time will tell. Nuf sed.
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