Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, told Newsweek that it was hard to see how much damage was done to Iran’s nuclear sites although U.S. and Israeli strikes were likely to have set back the Iranian program.
However, Iran still has hundreds of scientists who can reconstitute the program, Israeli assassinations aside, she said.
U.S. intelligence before the strikes had suggested that Iran was far from having a weaponized nuclear capability and was not racing for a bomb, although whether that calculation changes afterward is hard to say, added Kavanagh.
Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow & director of military analysis, Defense Priorities: “From the point of the Iranian regime, it would be reasonable to think that having a usable nuclear capability is the only safeguard for their security after twice having the rug being pulled out from under them on negotiations.”
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