US strikes on Iran nuclear sites are real-life test of hard power’s limits

By Francois Murphy and John Irish

Vienna/Paris (Reuters) -US military strikes on one night, President Donald Trump said that Iran’s main nuclear areas were “destroyed”, such attacks can delay a nuclear program, but will not kill a stable pressure for atomic bombs, he said.

As Iran’s nuclear program has expanded and more sophisticated in the last twenty years, many authorized and nuclear experts have warned: you can destroy or disable the physical infrastructure of a nuclear program, but it is very difficult or impossible to eliminate the information of a country.

The Western forces, including the United States, proposed to the public by complaining about Iran’s “irreversible information gain” by fulfilling Iran’s activities.

“Military strikes alone cannot eliminate Iran’s comprehensive nuclear information, including the Washington -based weapons control association, with large shelter bombs, including two main underground enrichment plants in Natanz and Fordow. He said.

“The strikes will bring back Iran’s program, but Tehran will strengthen the determination to recreate sensitive nuclear activities, probably the nuclear nuclear nuclear will be withdrawn from an unaccipped treaty and possibly considering to continue arming.”

Israel also said that he had killed Iranian nuclear scientists, but very little is known about the personnel side of Iran’s nuclear program, but the authorities said that Iran has a serious impact on nuclear knowledge even if he could slow down progress in the near term.

The West says that Iran is not a civilian reason for the enrichment of uranium to the purity of fissil close to weapons. Iran says its nuclear goals are only peaceful and have the right to enrich as much as they want.

Iran’s nuclear program, Trump’s Tehran and sanctions in exchange for the relief of atomic activities, which brought strict limits to the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and the great powers made rapid progress.

After the US withdrawal in 2018 and the re -prevention of US sanctions, Iran has gone far beyond the boundaries of the agreement, such as the purity that it could enrich Uranium and how much it could stock.

Uranium stock

At least up to the first strike against Israel’s enrichment facilities on June 13, Iran refined up to 60% of purity, a bomb class roughly than 90%, and a more higher step by the 2015 agreement, until the year after Trump respected until the year after the withdrawal of the 2015 agreement.

The latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency on May 31 showed that the UN nuclear guard dog, which controls Iran’s nuclear facilities, showed that Iran was more enriched up to 60%if Iran was enriched for nine nuclear weapons than an IAEA garden. 20% and 5% lower levels.

Israel and the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and materials have not yet been determined. In addition to the enrichment areas, the United States shot Isfahan, where the authorities said that most of the most richest uranium stock of Iran were stored underground.

An important clear question is how Iran’s enriched Uranium still has and all of them are explained.

A senior Iranian source Reuters told Reuters on Sunday, Most of the highly enriched uranium in Fordow, producing most of Iran’s uranium up to 60%, the site said that the US attack was moved to an unnamed place before the attack.

Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said that last weekend Iran will take measures to protect Iran’s Nuclear Supplies and Equipments that would not be notified to IAEA, and that IAEA will no longer cooperate with IAEA.

North Korea looks great

IAEA, nine days ago since the first Israeli strike has not been able to conduct inspections in Iran, but Iran said it was in contact with the authorities.

It is also unclear what to do in terms of Iran’s nuclear program. The threat of withdrawal from the non -prevented treaty of nuclear weapons points to the nuclear weapon race, but Iran claimed that there was no intention of doing so.

The only country to announce its withdrawal from NPT is North Korea in 2003. IAEA fired the inspectors and continued to test nuclear weapons.

“Our biggest concern is that we result in a North Korean scenario that these strikes are convinced that the only way to save the regime is to go to the bomb. Nobody bombs North Korea, right?” A European authority said.

Even if the inspections continued, Iran had already scrapped the extra IAEA surveillance of the 2015 agreement due to the withdrawal of Trump in 2018. This means that the agency no longer knows how many centrifugal in Iran is undisputed.

Although IAEA cannot guarantee that Iran’s goals are completely peaceful, it is not a reliable indicator of a coordinated nuclear weapon program.

Israel and now created fears between US strikes, diplomats and other officials, but Iran can use these centrifuges to build a hidden enrichment area, because it can be built in a relatively small and unconscious building like a warehouse.

A Western official, “We do not know that it is very likely to have enrichment areas. Iran is a big country,” he said, Iran can choose to throw the time, he added.

“In two years, if Iran would start from scratch, they would have only a few months to recreate a new program and return to where they were yesterday.”

(Additional reporting by Parisa Hafesi; Writing by Francois Murphy; Editing by Mark Heinrich)