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New Images Show Iran's Nuclear Ambitions in Ruins
(Telegraph-UK) Melanie Swan - U.S. strikes on Iran may have set the country's nuclear program back by several years, according to preliminary expert analysis. It is probable that all three facilities targeted suffered extensive damage. Satellite images of convoys leaving all three sites in recent days support Iran's claims that it moved its 400-kg. stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons grade to a secret underground location shortly before the strikes. But the damage inflicted elsewhere would still make it difficult to turn the uranium into a bomb. Mick Mulroy, a former Pentagon official who served in the first Trump administration, told the New York Times that the U.S. strikes will "likely set back the Iranian nuclear program two to five years." Repairing the damage will be far harder following the assassination of more than a dozen nuclear scientists in the past 10 days, Israeli officials said.