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Home / Israel-Iran / New assessment finds site at focus of U.S. strikes in Iran badly damaged
Israel‑Iran, Middle East

July 17, 2025

New assessment finds site at focus of U.S. strikes in Iran badly damaged

“We’re too caught up in the stories about the big three sites — Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan — when really Iran’s capabilities are much more sprawling and sophisticated, and include many sites that the U.S. and Israel did not bomb,” said Rosemary A. Kelanic, an expert with Defense Priorities, a think tank advocating a restrained foreign policy. “Focusing too much on the big three sites misses the larger point that even if those three sites and their contents — centrifuges, stockpiles — were destroyed, Iran could likely still rebuild quickly.”

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