Claims
Nicholas L. Miller"If it [the stockpile of enriched uranium] is intact and Iran is able to keep it that way, they could potentially use it in a new covert enrichment facility to produce material for several nuclear weapons in a matter of months."Jun 24, 2025
Donald Trump"Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated."Jun 25, 2025
David Albright"Israel's and U.S. attacks have effectively destroyed Iran's centrifuge enrichment program."Jun 25, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard"Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. If the Iranians chose to rebuild, they would have to rebuild all three facilities (Natanz, Fordow, Esfahan) entirely, which would likely take years to do."Jun 26, 2025
Rafael Mariano Grossi"The capacities they have are there. They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that."Jun 29, 2025
Sean Parnell"The credibility of the Fake News Media is similar to that of the current state of the Iranian nuclear facilities: destroyed, in the dirt, and will take years to recover."Jul 17, 2025
Marco Rubio"They are way behind today compared to where they were just seven days ago because of what President Trump did."Jun 25, 2025
Stephen D. Mull
"The Iranian nuclear program has certainly suffered a setback in terms of its enrichment capabilities."Jun 25, 2025
Darya Dolzikova"The precise details of any further damage that the latest US strikes have caused to Iran's nuclear sites is unclear."Jul 04, 2025
Andrea Stricker"Iran likely requires months, if not years, to restore an option to build nuclear weapons."Jun 25, 2025
J.D. Vance"I can say to the American people with great confidence that they [Iranians] are much further away from a nuclear program today than they were 24 hours ago."Jun 25, 2025
Israel Atomic Energy Commission"The American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years."Jul 16, 2025
John Ratcliffe"[S]everal key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed [in the US strikes] and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years."Jun 26, 2025
Spencer Faragasso"Overall, it may possibly take years for Iran to reconstitute the capabilities it lost at these facilities."Jun 25, 2025
Eyal Zamir
"[W]e significantly damaged the nuclear program, and I can also say that we set it back by years, I repeat, years."Jun 25, 2025
Donald Trump"I think it's basically decades, because I don't think they'll ever do it [restart nuclear enrichment program] again."Jul 17, 2025
Sean Parnell"We're thinking probably closer to two years—like degraded their program by two years."Jul 03, 2025
