The source added that Iran would likely need at least one to two years to rebuild and produce a working nuclear weapon.
By The IDF Club
Israel’s airstrikes on Iran during Operation Rising Lion not only disabled the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program but also destroyed facilities developing alternative weapons capable of devastating the Jewish state, according to The Washington Post.
Senior Israeli defense and intelligence officials believe the Iranians were studying an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon capable of crippling Israel electronically, a more complex nuclear fusion bomb, and a standard fission warhead, the Post reported.
The destruction of Iran’s weapons programs has significantly set back Tehran’s nuclear development, an Israeli source said, echoing statements from the Trump administration about the success of the strikes.
“Iran is no longer a threshold nuclear state,” a senior Israeli official told the Post.
The source added that Iran would likely need at least one to two years to rebuild and produce a working nuclear weapon.
That process, the official said, would be detected by Israeli intelligence and subject to a preemptive strike.
The Post report also noted that one of the most devastating acts of the 12-day war was the coordinated assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.
According to sources, the entirety of Iran’s “first-tier” nuclear scientists — along with all of its second-tier and most of its third-tier experts — were killed in Israeli strikes during the war’s first hours.
The source told the Post that coordinated Israeli and U.S. airstrikes crippled key components of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
The Natanz enrichment facility was destroyed, while the heavily fortified underground complex at Fordow was rendered inoperable.
In Isfahan, a uranium conversion center was completely disabled by Israeli strikes.
Another bombing raid targeted and buried a covert storage site containing 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium.
Israel was also said to have destroyed 80 percent of Iran’s missile launchers, along with half of the Islamic Republic’s 3,000 ballistic missiles.
