(Foundation for Defense of Democracies) Andrea Stricker - Iran likely lacks the option to build nuclear weapons in the short term due to Israeli strikes that damaged Tehran's weaponization capabilities extensively. Israel struck numerous weaponization facilities, equipment, atomic weapons components, and documentation, and assassinated at least 14 nuclear scientists. Israel has penetrated Iran's atomic weapons program and activities so deeply that Israel would likely detect Iran building nuclear weapons, an action that would probably invite additional, massive U.S. and Israeli strikes. The writer is a research fellow and deputy director of the Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program at the FDD.
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