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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-program-israel.html
Iran Preparing for the Next War
(New York Times) Steven Erlanger - Regional officials and analysts are warning that another outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is only a matter of time. Israeli officials believe that Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to make 11 nuclear weapons, is not buried under rubble, but has been spirited away to a safe place. Moreover, Iran also appears to be continuing to work on a new enrichment site known as Pickaxe Mountain and has refused to give international inspectors access to that site. Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, said Iranian officials have told him that missile factories are working 24 hours a day, and if there is another war, "they hope to fire 2,000 at once to overwhelm Israeli defenses." There is no evidence that a new attack is imminent, but "Israel feels the job is unfinished and sees no reason not to resume the conflict, so Iran is doubling down preparedness for the next round, and they want it to produce a new equilibrium that will wipe out the sense of Iranian weakness," he said.