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Expert: China Unlikely to Replace Iran's Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility

(Jewish Insider) Lahav Harkov - IDF Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, noted that while Iran may be able to rebuild parts of its nuclear program from whatever remains of it, the Isfahan metal conversion facility was purchased from China, and Iran does not know how to build one itself. He posited that China would be unlikely to construct a new one for the Islamic Republic after the IAEA said it had a nuclear weapons program in violation of the Nonproliferation Treaty. Israel "needs to remain vigilant" and "needs to eliminate any new kind of air defense Iran will try to build, in order to maintain freedom of action in the air. Israel needs quality intelligence about the details of what Iran is planning and how it may try to advance to break out and build nuclear weapons." One significant achievement that has emerged from the war is demonstrating that the U.S. and Israel are willing and able to successfully attack if the threat from the Islamic Republic becomes acute. Israel "attacked and had aerial superiority in Iran for nearly two weeks and could have continued for as long as [it] wanted, had international legitimacy, and not just American support but involvement." "Iran can build a new Fordow in three or four years; they were already working on more underground facilities, but what is the point if they know that the U.S. has an unlimited number of bombs that they can drop anywhere and are willing to use them?"
2025-07-01 00:00:00
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