06/26/2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 22, less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump said he would decide on whether or not to bomb Iran within the next two weeks, American B-2 bombers took off from an airbase in Missouri to drop the largest bombs the United States has ever used in combat on three Iranian nuclear facilities — Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan.
The Trump administration has maintained that the strikes were necessary to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which they say the country was just “weeks away” from accomplishing, even though no credible evidence of Iran working to build a nuclear weapon has existed since the country’s nuclear weapons program was shut down in 2003.
While the Trump administration has said that the strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, it has taken steps to shield a preliminary intelligence assessment that shows otherwise from Congress. The President canceled an intelligence briefing regarding the assessment that was scheduled to take place this past Tuesday because he knew the assessment wasn’t going to support his claim that the strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program.
Instead of eliminating Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. bombing campaign may have just pushed it further underground. If the goal was to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the strikes appear to have failed. Unless, as some analysts warn, the real objective was to provoke Iran into pursuing a bomb, which would give the U.S. and Israel justification for a broader war in the future.
All we can do now is see how long this ceasefire holds.
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