I've seen all the kerfuffle around our bombing of the Iranian nuke sites and people waving their arms and shouting that we didn't do all that much damage. I find that almost impossible to believe.
The combined intel capabilities of Israel and America are unmatched in the world. The Israelis have Mossad agents on the ground in Iran and our SIGINT and satellite intel are terrific. I'd bet a large stack of money that there were UAVs floating around over all of the target sites as well.
Israel has an existential interest in making sure the Iranian nuke effort was wiped out. The attacks on Iran were a one-off. Israel isn't going to be given permanent carte blanche to bomb Iran.
Further, Iran was flat on its back. It couldn't defend itself at all. There was no reason we couldn't have sent the B-2s back several more times and let Israel smack Iran around for another week. We had a pair of carriers in the area who never got off a single air strike.
In order for me to believe that we didn't obliterate Iran's nuke facilities, you'd have to convince me that the Israeli and US intel operations whiffed on their damage assessments after the strikes. There is no way Israel would have called off its attacks or even moved to secondary and tertiary targets, like they did near the end, if they had thought Iran still possessed a significant portion of its uranium enrichment capabilities.
I don't care what a handful of leakers tell the press, I simply don't believe it. I mean, it's possible that the Iranians outfoxed us all, but that seems to be the longest of longshots.
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