Iran's symbolic retaliation
the logical outcome of the military failure, because we clearly couldn't get rid of this material or these centrifuges with military action. We don't know where they are today and the only way we bring them under control is, either to strategically defeat Iran and occupy Iran, which just isn't in the books at this juncture, or to cut a deal that brings an end to the conflict and brings Iran's nuclear program back under the monitoring of international inspectors.
A PR stunt?
What Israel did and what Trump did afterwards was to coalesce Iranian national unity there won't be regime change.
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Members of the Knesset are already fleeing Tel Aviv. There was an LL rescue plane with lots of VIPs inside. They had to turn back in midair because Iranian missiles this morning start flying, so panic is already set in.
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It was a PR operation, a reality show, and he went immediately afterwards on air to control the narrative and to set the narrative and everybody had to repeat it. But then one day later, now you know almost two days later we start to see what really happened, and we had from the beginning Iranian sources including members of parliament high level members of parliament say look nothing happened. Everything that was of value in Fordo was removed before including 400 kilos of enriched uranium. It was empty. Essentially just like Natans was empty and Isfahan was also empty. So they bombed three empty installations essentially.
