Tzachi Hanegbi, head of Israel’s National Security Council, confirmed to Israel Today that US President Donald Trump’s assessment is correct. Iran’s nuclear program suffered enormous damage, if not being outright “obliterated.”

“It will take many years to recover,” Hanegbi said of Iran’s nuclear program. “The largest uranium enrichment facility in Natanz has been completely destroyed. The facility for converting uranium back into metallic form in Isfahan has been completely destroyed. The nuclear facility in Arak, designed to enable a plutonium-based weapons path, has been destroyed.”

And what of Fordow, the most critical of the Iranian nuclear facilities?

“Assessments suggest it cannot be restored to operational status for a long time,” said Hanegbi. “All the leading scientists of the weapons program have been killed, and there are no replacements of a caliber capable of advancing Iran’s production of a weapons facility in the foreseeable future.”

In addition to the damage done to Fordow and the elimination of the scientists who would’ve known how to rebuild it, Hanegbi noted that Israel...

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