Can't say I'm happy, but this was coming. Iran defied the world with thier sponsorship of islamoterrorisn; now they pay for it. Thier nuclear enrichment facilities are wrecked.
Questions remain: How much enriched nuclear material do they have? Enough for one, two, three or no warheads? Will the Iranian people riae up and overthrow the current regime? Will they install "moderates" if they do? And the $64K one, Are there "sleeper cells" here, now that will attack from within?
Stay wary, stay frosty, be prepared. Don't leave home without it!
The theory is that they have 60% enriched uranium, which is close to bomb grade but not quite so it won't do for a nuclear bomb. And that assumes it hasn't been vaporized into the sky. One thing that might help is that enrichment is done using uranium hexafluoride, which is a gas; that has to be turned back into the metal and the place where that is supposedly done was already blasted by Israel. So if the supply Iran had was mostly or entirely in gas form -- which seems likely because anything else makes little sense for not-fully-enriched material -- then chances are it's not around any longer.
I suspect the decision was made when Trump returned from the G7 meeting a day early. The two week "ultimatum" was to make preparations and keep our enemies guessing. It had the secondary effect of flushing out the congress critters who opposed this. To all those afraid that we would be widening the war, we've been at war with with Iran ever since the Islamic Republic (an oxymoron if ever there was one) supported those who took our embassy personnel hostage in 1979. Personally Obama and Biden should be tried for treason (providing aid and comfort to the enemy) but that will never happen.
Can't say I'm happy, but this was coming. Iran defied the world with thier sponsorship of islamoterrorisn; now they pay for it. Thier nuclear enrichment facilities are wrecked.
Questions remain: How much enriched nuclear material do they have? Enough for one, two, three or no warheads? Will the Iranian people riae up and overthrow the current regime? Will they install "moderates" if they do? And the $64K one, Are there "sleeper cells" here, now that will attack from within?
Stay wary, stay frosty, be prepared. Don't leave home without it!
The theory is that they have 60% enriched uranium, which is close to bomb grade but not quite so it won't do for a nuclear bomb. And that assumes it hasn't been vaporized into the sky. One thing that might help is that enrichment is done using uranium hexafluoride, which is a gas; that has to be turned back into the metal and the place where that is supposedly done was already blasted by Israel. So if the supply Iran had was mostly or entirely in gas form -- which seems likely because anything else makes little sense for not-fully-enriched material -- then chances are it's not around any longer.
I suspect the decision was made when Trump returned from the G7 meeting a day early. The two week "ultimatum" was to make preparations and keep our enemies guessing. It had the secondary effect of flushing out the congress critters who opposed this. To all those afraid that we would be widening the war, we've been at war with with Iran ever since the Islamic Republic (an oxymoron if ever there was one) supported those who took our embassy personnel hostage in 1979. Personally Obama and Biden should be tried for treason (providing aid and comfort to the enemy) but that will never happen.