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Iran Is Down, but Not Yet Out

(Wall Street Journal) David Albright interviewed by Tunku Varadarajan - David Albright, an American physicist and nuclear-weapons tracker who is president of the Institute for Science and International Security, says Iran was on track to have enough highly enriched uranium for 22 weapons in five months. Yet Israel's continued pounding of Iranian sites has degraded Iran's capabilities. Iran's "overall breakout capability has been degraded because of the loss of Natanz," its largest enrichment facility, which Israel struck on June 13. Israel's attacks have "made it more difficult for Iran to build a nuclear weapon itself. The weaponeer elite has been eliminated. They took out Iran's Oppenheimers....These killings are a huge disruption to the task of pulling a bomb program together." One of those killed was Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, who warned in an interview last month that Iran could deploy nukes against "the U.S., England and the Zionist regime" by means other than missiles and aircraft. It astonishes Albright that the delusion that Iran suspended its nuclear program persists even after the daring theft of an Iranian nuclear archive by the Israelis in 2018. This intelligence trove revealed the full extent of Iran's nuclear deception.
2025-06-22 00:00:00
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