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UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief: ‘Night and Day’ Difference Between Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities Before and After US Strikes

Thanks! I quoted the operation ceiling of the B2. You have no idea what their altitude was during attacks. Fact remains a stealth bomber is a pretty safe place to bomb from. That's why it's called stealthy; it's almost invisible to radar, except what appears to be a blip the size of a small bird..
It was discussed, I think it was by the General Caine, in yesterday's news conference. They were dropped from 13,000 ft.
 
It was most certainly an irresponsible (and demonstrated a deliberate and blatant against America messaging goal, all because of their Trump hate)
Agreed.

CNN black eye. And hopefully the leaker will be found and jailed per the espionage act.
Also agreed. I'm sure the FBI will track them down, as that specific report couldn't have been accessible to to many people at all.

As far as CNN, Bertrand pulls this crap with story after story, wherever she is employed.
Yes, she's one of the purveyors of the 'Hunter laptop is Russian' story as well, so no journalist she.

It's a mystery as to why they want their network reputation represented by someone like her.
CNN doesn't care. They only care to push the left's demanded narratives, propaganda, hoaxes and smear campaigns against non-Dems. Its all they do anymore, as their rating and financial out look shows:

CNN’s net worth was nearly sliced in half between 2021 and 2023, according to financial metrics shared at the network’s defamation trial on Friday.​
The network’s net worth went from $4.4 billion in 2021 to $2.3 billion in 2023 — a drop of 47.7% — according to what the company shared.​
CNN’s annual revenue also dropped from $2.2 billion to $1.8 billion from 2021 to 2023, per the company’s internal metrics.​
The financial metrics put a spotlight on CNN’s conspicuous decline in recent years. And following the 2024 election, the network, along with MSNBC, has seen its ratings take a major hit. TheWrap reported in November that CNN’s viewership declined 27% in the weeks following Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, with CNN averaging 367,000 total viewers post-election.​
CNN’s finances were reported after a Florida jury on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran when it implied he illegally profited from helping Afghans flee the country during a 2021 segment on “The Lead With Jake Tapper.” The network was ordered to pay Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory damages for libel, and the jury is still deciding on how much the network must now pay in punitive damages.​

CNN’s Net Worth Sliced in Half to $2.3 Billion Over 2 Years​


If CNN continues on this trajectory, they'll eventually just be gone. If they don't change their trajectory of their reporting, they deserve to be gone. Irony is that all of this is self inflicted.
 
Nobody has categorically confirmed, with unimpeachable evidence, that Iran reached any degree of enrichment beyond agreed levels-there is only speculation. The only credible source we have is the IAEA and they confirmed that Iran was in compliance with JCPOA until Trump reneged on the deal, at which point Iran had no obligation to continue abiding by a deal violated by America. Is it any wonder Iran doesn't trust the West, after being screwed over so often, from 1953 to today?
Yeah, Iran didn't enrich the volume not the purity of uranium it had been doing prior to Trump pulling us out of JCPOA. It's an inconvenient truth for MAGA, but the truth is we could have avoided this entire mess by just complying with JCPOA in the first place.
 
Agreed.


Also agreed. I'm sure the FBI will track them down, as that specific report couldn't have been accessible to to many people at all.


Yes, she's one of the purveyors of the 'Hunter laptop is Russian' story as well, so no journalist she.


CNN doesn't care. They only care to push the left's demanded narratives, propaganda, hoaxes and smear campaigns against non-Dems. Its all they do anymore, as their rating and financial out look shows:

CNN’s net worth was nearly sliced in half between 2021 and 2023, according to financial metrics shared at the network’s defamation trial on Friday.​
The network’s net worth went from $4.4 billion in 2021 to $2.3 billion in 2023 — a drop of 47.7% — according to what the company shared.​
CNN’s annual revenue also dropped from $2.2 billion to $1.8 billion from 2021 to 2023, per the company’s internal metrics.​
The financial metrics put a spotlight on CNN’s conspicuous decline in recent years. And following the 2024 election, the network, along with MSNBC, has seen its ratings take a major hit. TheWrap reported in November that CNN’s viewership declined 27% in the weeks following Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, with CNN averaging 367,000 total viewers post-election.​
CNN’s finances were reported after a Florida jury on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran when it implied he illegally profited from helping Afghans flee the country during a 2021 segment on “The Lead With Jake Tapper.” The network was ordered to pay Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory damages for libel, and the jury is still deciding on how much the network must now pay in punitive damages.​

CNN’s Net Worth Sliced in Half to $2.3 Billion Over 2 Years​


If CNN continues on this trajectory, they'll eventually just be gone. If they don't change their trajectory of their reporting, they deserve to be gone. Irony is that all of this is self inflicted.
I agree with every point you made.
 






I know who I'm going to believe. The report above. The detected radiation confirms Iran's centrifuge enrichment program was destroyed. It will be many moons before Iran will be near capacity. We all ought to pull together and feel thankful that
Trump did sent well trained undetected flyers to do the deed. God Bless our troops.


Meh. I dont care about Iran, doesnt worry me at all.

Now.....the religious zealots in Israel......THOSE PEOPLE worry me!!
 
Right. Everyone should keep their mouths shut until a "high confidence" assessment can be made. But some idiot Democrat in the Pentagon thought he could make some points with his buddies by leaking a classified document, and more idiots at CNN, desperate to be relevant, played his stupid game. It's expected that the Commander in Chief will report to the nation after a bombing run of this scale, but it's not expected that traitors will be given an audience.
LOL, Trump is the idiot who started this by lying about it the damage they caused.
 






I know who I'm going to believe. The report above. The detected radiation confirms Iran's centrifuge enrichment program was destroyed. It will be many moons before Iran will be near capacity. We all ought to pull together and feel thankful that
Trump did sent well trained undetected flyers to do the deed. God Bless our troops.
PURE UNADULTERATED BULLCRAP

Writer ADAM KREDO is an ASS-k-NAZI ZIONIST Supremacist


The Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. declared that

"
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months"

 
PURE UNADULTERATED BULLCRAP

Writer ADAM KREDO is an ASS-k-NAZI ZIONIST Supremacist


The Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. declared that

"
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months"

The Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. declared that
That preliminary report was of "low confidence." Where have you been for the last few days?
 
The Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. declared that
That preliminary report was of "low confidence." Where have you been for the last few days?

IRRELEVANT

THE CIA ATTACKED IRAN USING A HACKED FALSE MANUFACTURED IAEA DOCUMENT AS A PRETEXT. IRANIAN IT/AI EXPERT - MOHSEN FAKHRIZADEH - FOUND THE CORRUPTED SOFTWARE AND WAS ASSASSINATED BY THE MOSSAD
 
A high government official in Iran has disagreed with CNN. Don't you feel like a f**king idiot?
not at all. trump's "obliterated" claim was stupid from the start. A real leader would never say such a dumb thing right out the box.
when are you going to wake up and realize the man is a ****ing conman who has lied to you nonstop.
 
What was he basing his assessment on, exactly? Satellite photos can tell whether the structures were hit and damaged, but that's about it. The enriched uranium was likely moved somewhere else

He was basing it on the information they have. He was plain that their info is limited. But from the pictures and the data they have already, as well as the ability to detect things like radiation coming from the sites from a distance he is able to assess to some extent. And his conclusion is fairly strong considering he has shown nothing but apolitical rational logic around this for his entire tenure... he's a highly principled egghead., ;)
 
No, Set back is a temporary thing.

If something is destroyed... that thing can never be again?

If I destroy a room with fire, can the room not be rebuilt? Was it not set-back?

Yes, it was set-back by being burned.

.
 
not at all. trump's "obliterated" claim was stupid from the start. A real leader would never say such a dumb thing right out the box.
We'll have to wait until a first-hand look at the damage can be done. However, "obliterated" is a pretty good guess when many 30,000 pound bombs have been dropped on something.
when are you going to wake up and realize the man is a ****ing conman who has lied to you nonstop.
I'm not. I recognize that he spent most of his working life in construction and real estate sales. I expect hype. And, unlike Democrats, my favorite word about the opposition isn't "lie."
 
If something is destroyed... that thing can never be again?

If I destroy a room with fire, can the room not be rebuilt? Was it not set-back?

Yes, it was set-back by being burned.

.
The whole thing is a scam - a smoke screen to conceal the CIA's upcoming Phase II :


The warmongers, neocrazies and war profiteers who manipulate the CIA are seeking :

1- Regime change in Iran - they will try to install a CIA Puppet like Zelenskyy - someone who is friendly towards the Likudnicks but unfriendly towards Russia - this will turn Iran into another Ukraine

2- Consequently , soon , very very soon, we will read that Iran violated the cease fire agreement - the upcoming FALSE FLAG will be as deadly as the one that allegedly occurred October 7th, 2023

3- President Trump will declare that he "has no choice" but to invade Iran again in order to remove the bad hombres

And so it goes :

Why Iran Ceasefire Will Not Last


 
They were under 4% for many years, until the end of 2019. Then, in stark contrast to your claim it takes a long time to get to weapons grade enrichment, they actually did so in 7 quarters.
Forty years isn't a long time? They didn't do it in 7 quarters, it's taken them years to get there.
It doesn't take very long to get to weapon grade once you reach 60% or so.
 
Forty years isn't a long time? They didn't do it in 7 quarters, it's taken them years to get there.
It doesn't take very long to get to weapon grade once you reach 60% or so.
They were under 4% until Q4-2019. 7 quarters later, they were at 60%.

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You should have a look at this report from the IAEA Director General (Grossi) to the IAEA Board of Governors. dated May 31. 2025.
Section C entitled: JCPOA Verification and Monitoring Activities, paragraph 7 states the following;

This has seriously affected the Agency’s JCPOA-related verification and monitoring activities. The situation was exacerbated in June 2022 by Iran’s decision to remove all of the Agency’s JCPOA‑related surveillance and monitoring equipment. As a result of not having been able to performJCPOA-related verification and monitoring activities for more than four years, the Agency has lost continuity of knowledge in relation to the production and current inventory of centrifuges, rotors and bellows, heavy water, and UOC, which it will not be possible to restore.
Which means that, practically speaking, the IAEA doesn't know how many centrifuges Iran has stockpiled or even where they are all located. Iran could use any centrifuges it has in storage to replace those that may have been destroyed. Or set up new centrifuge facilities. In addition to what Iran already has, it can make more of them. Iran constructed a giant underground facility near Natanz under Pickaxe Mountain. We didn't strike that facility. There is also a third site for enrichment, the location of which is unknown. The IAEA also believes that at least some of the enriched uranium had been moved before the strike. The location, or locations, of that 60% enriched uranium are unknown. In short, there's an awful lot that Grossi and IAEA don't know about Iran's nuclear program at this point.
 
"The Pentagon's assessment" is a very preliminary review of aerial photos only, marked "Low Confidence."
What evidence do you think the White House used to declare the facilities "obliterated"? The same, right?
 
You should have a look at this report from the IAEA Director General (Grossi) to the IAEA Board of Governors. dated May 31. 2025.
Section C entitled: JCPOA Verification and Monitoring Activities, paragraph 7 states the following;


Which means that, practically speaking, the IAEA doesn't know how many centrifuges Iran has stockpiled or even where they are all located. Iran could use any centrifuges it has in storage to replace those that may have been destroyed. Or set up new centrifuge facilities. In addition to what Iran already has, it can make more of them. Iran constructed a giant underground facility near Natanz under Pickaxe Mountain. We didn't strike that facility. There is also a third site for enrichment, the location of which is unknown. The IAEA also believes that at least some of the enriched uranium had been moved before the strike. The location, or locations, of that 60% enriched uranium are unknown. In short, there's an awful lot that Grossi and IAEA don't know about Iran's nuclear program at this point.
What it also means is that for at least four years the IAEA hadn't done any meaningful monitoring, and so couldn't be sure about Iran's progress toward a bomb. Iran's action in stopping the monitoring probably doesn't indicate that they were only working on nuclear power. Looks like we'd better build some more bunker busters.
 
What evidence do you think the White House used to declare the facilities "obliterated"? The same, right?
I doubt it. There are several other intelligence agencies that have an interest in the results, such as Israel, the CIA, the (possibly compromised) Iranians...
 
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