"It's Annoying To Donald Trump."
- 25.06.2025, 13:56
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U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have proven insufficient.
The night of June 22 marked a sharp turn in the long-running standoff in the Middle East as the United States officially entered the armed conflict between Israel and Iran. The U.S. Air Force has launched a series of massive strikes on key nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.
U.S. President Donald Trump said all three sites had been destroyed, calling the operation a "pre-emptive strike for the sake of global security". Leaks from intelligence sources published in CNN and the New York Times indicate that the U.S. leader's words are likely an exaggeration.
How much did the U.S. strikes really damage the infrastructure of Iran's nuclear program? Charter97.org spoke to Ukrainian military and political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko about this:
- I lean more toward something in between purely symbolic damage and partial paralysis of the nuclear program.
Really, the strikes on Iranian facilities have demonstrated that the JBU-57 bomb fully meets its stated characteristics. It is a concrete-piercing, penetrating, anti-bunker weapon. We have seen the video recordings from which we can draw conclusions: the bombs meet their parameters. In addition, they have shown high accuracy in hitting targets. However, there is no reliable confirmation that the targets were destroyed.
If the object had really been destroyed, we would have observed subsidence of the ground - after all, we are talking about large underground structures. However, even on satellite images, this is not visible. There are detonations in some areas, but no ground subsidence. If the object has been damaged, it is insignificant.
In this context, CNN and The New York Times are indeed telling the truth - and this irritated Donald Trump because he wanted to demonstrate victory, to attribute success to himself. He needed some accomplishment, but even here he fell short.
What should have been done? Keep hitting. The bomb had proven effective, but targets like Fordo had to be destroyed systematically, in a series of strikes, until they were completely destroyed. One strike is not enough.One gets the impression that this was not an operation, but a show-off pulled by the ears. It was as if Israel forced Donald Trump to strike, but Trump himself did not want to. At the same time, he was actively publicizing his alleged victory over Iran, while the IDF did all the work. From the first days of Operation "People Like a Lion" he tried to attribute all the achievements to himself.
It looked extremely comical and bizarre, but the fact remains that if the strikes on the nuclear facilities had continued for three consecutive days, they would indeed have been destroyed. Exactly destroyed, not just damaged.But that didn't happen. It's as if Iran was just spooked - and that was the end of it.
- Israel claims that about ten top Iranian nuclear scientists have been eliminated. How critical is this loss for Iran's scientific and technological potential?
- This is a serious loss for Iran's scientific potential. Specialists of this level are extremely difficult to find and train - it is a multi-year process. Even their deputies, even students who could take up the baton, still have less experience. On the other hand, Iran has allies who can help it in this matter with specialists. This could be Pakistan, China, North Korea, with which Iran also has good relations. Therefore, I think there will be a kind of "reverse import" of specialists.
- Does Iran still have a real possibility to bring its nuclear program to the point of creating a warhead?
- Iran's nuclear program will continue. If the current fragile truce is maintained, then within the next three to four months, six months at most, Iran could return to the position it was in before June 12, 2025. That is to say - to come as close as possible to the possibility of creating its own nuclear weapons.I believe that the fact that everything was stopped is a mistake. Iran was given the opportunity to recover. To prevent this from happening, it was necessary to bring the operation to an end. But the world "policeman" in the person of the USA is not ready for such decisive actions at the moment. If the operation is not continued, unfortunately, Israel will face the same threats next year as it did before the war began.