How Close Was Iran to The Bomb?

However close the regime was to getting The Bomb, Israel has dealt a serious setback to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been warning the world about Iran’s nuclear ambitions for well over two decades.

Last week, Israel stopped warning, waiting, and watching as Iran’s terror-proxy wielding rulers moved ever closer to developing nuclear weapons and went on the offensive.

As of the last reckoning, dozens of Iranian nuclear scientists, officials, and military commanders are now dead — killed in Israeli airstrikes that some sources say have been planned since November.

“We were patient with diplomacy, intelligence showed Iran could have been days away from nuke,” Reuters quoted Israel’s UN envoy on June 14, 2025.

“We waited for diplomacy to work,” said Ambassador Danny Dannon. “We watched negotiations stretch on, as Iran made false concessions or refused the most fundamental conditions.”

“Senior military official says damage to Iran’s nuclear program ‘very significant,’” revealed Emanuel Fabian for the Times of Israel on June 14, 2025. “‘Since the beginning of the operation, Iran’s nuclear project has suffered heavy blows in two main areas: Damage to the production of the weapon core through strikes on uranium enrichment and…