JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The U.S. Defense Department estimates Iran’s nuclear program was set back by as much as two years, as Israel and Hamas apparently are moving closer to another ceasefire agreement, including a hostage exchange.
Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on Wednesday backed President Donald Trump’s assertion that U.S. and Israeli strikes “obliterated” Iran’s major nuclear sites.
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“All of the intelligence that we’ve seen has led us to believe that Iran’s – those facilities, especially – have been completely obliterated,” Parnell said.
He added that the action set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions by one or two years.
He estimated, “I think we’re thinking probably closer to two years, like degraded their program by two years.”
However, Iran may soon try to return to secret work on building nuclear weapons. The regime’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has now signed off on kicking the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), out of Iran. That drew a response from U.S. State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
/**/She announced, ” It is – we’ll use the word unacceptable – that Iran chose to suspend cooperation with the IAEA.”
The Iranian regime faces threats from both the White House and Israel that bombing will resume if Tehran returns to nuclear weapons manufacturing.
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In Gaza, Trump is also threatening the Hamas terror group, saying conditions will become much worse for its leadership and operatives unless they agree to a new ceasefire deal, one that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already agreed to.
“He wants it, too. He’s coming here next. He wants to end it, too,” Trump stated.
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