13/6/2025–|Last update: 08:34 (Mecca time)
The Israeli military strike on Iran at dawn today, Friday, is a major escalation in its long -term campaign to disrupt Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, in which it targeted the heart of Iranian nuclear infrastructure, in its largest known attack on the country so far, according to a report in the New York Times.
The newspaper was initially reported describing the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The process, which targeted the Natanz Nuclear facility – the main axis of the program Uranium enrichment The Iranian – as a blow to the “main enrichment facility in Iran”.
According to the report of the newspaper’s foreign affairs editor, David E. Sanger, the goal is to delay or perhaps obstruct Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons, although the full range of damage is still unclear.
The writer claimed that the Natanz facility, which produces the majority of enriched uranium in Iran, has made materials approaching the levels required for making nuclear bombs, indicating that a large part of Iranian nuclear progress has been since withdrawal US From the 2015 nuclear agreement it may focus in Natanz, where more efficient centrifugal hardware has been installed, and the fertilization pace has accelerated.
But the newspaper explained that Fordo, the other main enrichment site in Iran, is a more buried target in the depths of the earth, there is no, yet, which confirms his attack. Experts seen a newspaper killed by them New York Times That if Fordo remains intact, Iran may reserve the ability to produce uranium fit for use in weapons.
The writer said that this attack comes in the wake of two decades of secret and public measures taken by Israel and the United States, with the aim of obstructing the Iranian nuclear development, which, according to him, included the electronic attack “Staxant”, the sabotage of the components of the centrifuges, and targeted assassinations of nuclear scientists>
While these measures hindered Iran, Iran is sometimes, but it failed to stop it. Iran has often rebuilt its capabilities and developed in response, according to the writer.
He represented The nuclear agreement For 2015, a temporary success in reducing Iran’s program. According to a newspaper New York The Times, forcing Iran to abandon 97% of its fertilized uranium, and set the level of fertilization to a level not designated for weapons.
However, after the president’s withdrawal Donald Trump From the agreement in 2018, Iran has resumed enrichment activities, and even ultimately accelerated it, and it is now the uranium to a degree of purity of 60%, just less than the 90% required to make Nuclear bomb.
The newspaper highlights the statement of the international inspectors recently that Iran It has enough materials to produce nine nuclear weapons, a claim that Netanyahu cited to justify the strike.
In addition to targeting the infrastructure, it was targeted Israel Also Iranian leadership, in an effort to eliminate prominent military and nuclear leaders, expanded the scope of the operation to be further than material facilities.
However, as the report confirms, there are still great doubts, without damaging the Fordo facility, Israel may not have been able to hinder the Iranian nuclear capabilities in a large way, and analysts have warned about them the New York Times reported that unless the Iranian website is penetrated, the essence of the ability Tehran On the fertilization you will remain steadfast.
Ultimately, while this strike represents a bold and risky step, the New York Times concluded that it was too early to assert whether Israel has really reshaped the strategic balance, or was it simply launched a new more dangerous stage in the conflict.