{"id":506,"date":"2025-07-03T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:18:00","slug":"pentagon-says-u-s-strikes-have-delayed-irans-nuclear-program-by-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Says U.S. Strikes Have Delayed Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program by Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8220;bunker-buster&#8221; bombs dropped by U.S. forces on Iranian nuclear facilities last month have set back Tehran\u2019s nuclear program by up to two years, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve rolled back their program by at least one to two years, according to internal intelligence evaluations,\u201d said Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell during a briefing with reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/108-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/108-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/108-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/108-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/108.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe assess that Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities have been significantly disrupted \u2014 and perhaps even their desire to pursue a nuclear weapon has been shaken,\u201d he added. However, national security analysts told Fox News Digital that Iran is unlikely to abandon its goal of acquiring nuclear arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks a far more optimistic evaluation of the June 22 airstrikes \u2014 which hit the Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz facilities \u2014 than earlier reports, which had questioned the level of damage to Iran\u2019s atomic infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rafael Grossi, director of the U.N.\u2019s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), cautioned over the weekend that Iran could resume uranium enrichment within a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks came amid speculation that Iran may have managed to relocate portions of its enriched uranium stockpile or centrifuge equipment ahead of the strikes. Satellite imagery reportedly showed over a dozen cargo trucks at the Fordow site in the days leading up to the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;bunker-buster&#8221; bombs dropped by U.S. forces on Iranian nuclear facilities last month have set back Tehran\u2019s nuclear program by up to two years, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019ve rolled back their program by at least one to two years, according to internal intelligence evaluations,\u201d said Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell during a briefing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=506\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Pentagon Says U.S. Strikes Have Delayed Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program by Two Years&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}