Trump’s Iran own goal

Well into the second month of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, it is worth taking stock of where things stand. Here’s what things looked like in Iran and its neighborhood before the war began in late February.

In June of last year, Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities had been, in President Donald Trump’s words, “completely and totally obliterated” by a 12-day bombing campaign by U.S. and Israeli air forces using stealth bombers and 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs. The head of Israel’s Defense Forces agreed with Trump, saying, “We have set Iran’s nuclear project back by years, and the same goes for its missile program.” That conclusion was reiterated by Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, which added that “the achievement can continue indefinitely” as long as Iran did not get access to nuclear materials — and that access was actively being denied.

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