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If they haven't removed the sensitive stuff before anyway after someone suggested they will make a decision within two weeks whether to attack.

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I find this argument hard to believe. Israel had complete air superiority for a week and was monitoring all the sites, routinely hitting the above ground nuclear facilities. I’m skeptical Iran could transfer anything significant from Fordow and not be immediately spotted by Israel.

> The report also found that much of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be put to use for a possible nuclear weapon was moved before the strikes and may have been moved to other secret nuclear sites maintained by Iran.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/iran-strikes-n...

I still consider the main report to not be substantiated. Israel claims that they know where the stockpile is and that they have been monitoring sites[1][2]. Some official even claimed it’s mostly under the rubble. Not sure why one is to believed and the other not when neither have hard evidence.

1. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-858895 2. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-858619

Feel the same, not to mention Israel would have spies in Iran, satellites all over it.

Israel could not spot hundreds of Hamas terrorists rehearsing the 7 of October attacks, and using cell phones for weeks, 20 miles from their Urim base in the Negev desert. [1]

Or could they? ;-)

[1] - https://mondediplo.com/2010/09/04israelbase

This has been repeated so many times but the enriched uranium is far more vulnerable in transport.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/iran-strikes-n...

Most modern goods are valuable and hard to replace because of their mechanical or chemical properties, and so blowing them up destroys the value.

My understanding is that U-235 is not like that, blowing it up accomplishes very little when recovery consists of what they'd already be doing to clear the debris, plus some mechanical and chemical separation.

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