📰 Fordo Flattened, but Iran’s Nuclear Crisis Is Just Beginning

As Trump hails a military triumph, the U.N. atomic watchdog quietly confirms the centrifuges are toast — and the real crisis may now be political, not technical.

💭 “There was no escaping significant physical damage. So we can come to a fairly accurate technical conclusion.”

— Rafael Grossi, Director General, IAEA

📊 Fallout from the Fordo Strike
– Centrifuges Dead: U.S. bunker-busters knocked out Fordo’s uranium enrichment machines — fragile tech, obliterated by design
– Limited but Real: Grossi says Iran’s nuclear program suffered “enormous damage,” but warns against exaggeration: not all sites were hit
– No Inspectors: IAEA still locked out — Iran’s parliament just voted to kick them out entirely
– Backlash Begins: Tehran pledges “protective measures” for enriched uranium — the red line may shift underground, and out of sight

💼 Diplomatic Aftershocks
– Trump insists the program was “obliterated,” while leaks say only “months lost”
– Pentagon offers silence; CIA hedges
– Iran inches toward full NPT defiance — and the IAEA fears a new crisis is one bad decision away

🤔 Is this the end of Iran’s bomb — or just the beginning of a nuclear shadow war with no inspectors?

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🛰 Iran Ditches the West, Rebuilds With China’s Help

💬 “Iran’s nuclear facilities were seriously damaged,”

said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.

“But Tehran is already restoring them — and could reach weapons capability within months.”

🔧 Turning Point
After U.S. and Israeli strikes crippled key nuclear infrastructure, Iran is quietly bouncing back — and not alone. Beijing has stepped in, supplying military hardware, surveillance drones, and critical components to help Iran rewire its defenses. Tehran is even switching from U.S. GPS to China’s BeiDou navigation system.

⚛️ Nuclear Recovery
The damage to Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities was severe — but not final. Satellite images show rapid reconstruction at multiple sites. According to Grossi, the window to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran is closing fast.

🤝 Strategic Realignment
The strikes may have aimed to deter — instead, they redirected. By tightening military and economic ties with both China and Russia, Iran is embedding itself deeper in the emerging anti-Western bloc. Foreign Ministry officials now refer to these partnerships as “pillars of stability in a multipolar world.”

🧭 Did the West just accelerate the very outcome it sought to prevent?

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📰 Trump Says Iran’s Nuclear Program Is ‘Obliterated.’ The IAEA Says: Not So Fast.

The bombs may have dropped, but Iran’s nuclear ambitions are far from buried.

💭 “Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there.”

— Rafael Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency

📋 What We Know:
– The U.S. strike with 14 bunker-busters severely damaged Iran’s enrichment sites — but didn’t wipe them out.
– Intelligence reports suggest Tehran could resume enrichment “within months.”
– Some uranium stockpiles may have been moved — in containers small enough to fit in a car.

🚀 Conflicting Assessments:
– Trump insists the program is finished: “obliterated like nobody’s ever seen.”
– U.S. and European intelligence agencies disagree, warning Iran retains key capabilities.
– Analysts say the biggest loss was a facility meant to convert enriched uranium into weapons-grade metal — still, rebuilding it is possible.

⚖️ The Political Theater:
– Trump threatens lawsuits against media citing Defense Intelligence reports.
– Offers Iran a deal: sanctions relief in exchange for full disarmament and inspections.
– Meanwhile, he dismisses agency findings, calling evacuation of uranium “very hard” — despite evidence to the contrary.

🤔 What’s more dangerous — a nuclear program in secret, or a political fantasy in public?

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📰 Satellite Clarity, Strategic Fog: Iran Digs Into Fordow After U.S. 'Obliteration' Strike
The White House called it a knockout blow. Satellite images suggest Tehran’s just getting started.

💭 “They found their shovels.”

— Richard Nephew, ex-U.S. nuclear envoy, on Iran’s excavation at Fordow

📋 What We’re Seeing:
– Maxar satellite images show Iran clearing debris and preparing to inspect Fordow — the underground nuclear facility bombed by U.S. B-2s on June 22.
– Excavators, cranes, and dump trucks are operating near visible bomb impact craters.
– A new mountain access road has been cut — likely to allow cameras and personnel into the underground tunnels.

📊 Damage Assessment:
– The Pentagon said it was “obliteration.” The Defense Intelligence Agency quietly said: “setback, not destruction.”
– Iran appears to be assessing salvageable equipment — including uranium stockpiles and enrichment centrifuges.
– IAEA chief Rafael Grossi confirmed: “Severe damage, not total. Iran could be enriching again within months.”

💼 Why It Matters:
– Fordow was designed for resilience — buried under rock, shielded from airstrikes.
– The operation may have been high-tech, but Iran’s response is low-tech: shovels, trucks, and patience.
– Meanwhile, the IAEA can no longer monitor centrifuge production, thanks to Trump’s 2018 JCPOA withdrawal.

🤔 Was “obliteration” just a headline? Or did Washington just scatter a program it can no longer see?

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🧨 Iran Pulls the Plug on Nuclear Inspectors: The Fallout Has Just Begun

💭 “The international community must act decisively now… before Tehran walks out like Pyongyang.”

— Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar

📉 Eyes Wide Shut
* Iran just suspended all cooperation with the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
* Inspectors can no longer assess the damage from U.S. and Israeli strikes — or track Iran’s 400+ kg stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
* Translation: the world is now officially flying blind on Iran’s nuclear program.

🛑 Fallout Diplomacy
* President Pezeshkian implemented a new law blocking access until the West guarantees safety for Iran’s nuclear scientists.
* Trump says he’s open to talks, but Tehran wants a formal pledge: no more bunker-busters before negotiations.
* Iran warns it might leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty altogether — a move that only North Korea has dared before.

🔥 Khamenei’s Victory Lap
* Supreme Leader Khamenei claimed victory and mocked U.S. strike damage — while Tehran quietly tries to dig its way back into Fordow.
* The Natanz and Isfahan sites are also crippled, per IAEA reports.

🤔 Question for the Audience
When a regime says “nothing to see here” — while banning all cameras and doubling down on enrichment — is it time to believe them?

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📰 UN Inspectors Flee Iran. The Nuclear Game Goes Dark.

💬 “The IAEA is blind. Iran is enraged. Israel is watching.”

📊 The Inspection Lights Are Off
• For the first time in decades, Iran’s nuclear sites are officially unmonitored.
• The IAEA pulled its inspectors out — not because of logistics, but death threats from Iran’s regime-linked media and MPs.
• Inspectors were locked in hotels since Israel bombed enrichment facilities on June 13.

💼 What This Means on the Ground
• No on-site checks. No enriched uranium counts. No answers.
• Tehran claims it’s still in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but acts like it’s already out.
• Iran’s parliament passed a law suspending cooperation.
• Western intelligence is left with satellite photos and hope.

🎯 Who Benefits from the Blindfold?
• Israel? Claims it set back Iran’s program two years.
• Trump? Says Iran wants a new deal — but Tehran hasn’t said a word.
• Iran? Frees itself from oversight while waving the NPT card for cover.

🤔 Is the NPT Dying in Real Time?
• Without inspections, the treaty is just paperwork.
• Will the IAEA take this to the UN Security Council — and will anything happen if it does?
• When Tehran says Grossi paved the way for Israeli strikes, are we watching diplomatic collapse disguised as procedure?

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📰 Iran Defiant as Nuclear Sanctions Return

International sanctions suspended under the 2015 nuclear deal are set to snap back Sunday morning, and Tehran is meeting them with defiance rather than concessions.

💭 “The wall of mistrust between us and the Americans is quite thick and quite high,”

President Masoud Pezeshkian said Friday, rejecting Western demands while insisting Iran would remain in the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

💥 What’s changing:
• Sanctions reset: Oil embargoes, financial restrictions, arms and missile bans, and curbs on uranium enrichment all come back into force.
• IAEA sidelined: Inspectors have been allowed into some minor facilities, but barred from the nuclear sites hit by U.S. and Israeli strikes in June.
• Economic fallout: Inflation already near 40% could climb toward 50%, with the rial sliding and exporters losing access to banks, insurers, and shippers.
• Global split: China will keep buying Iranian oil. Russia is expected to ignore the sanctions. The UAE is likely to continue re-exporting goods quietly.

⚙️The bigger picture:
The sanctions confirm the collapse of the 2015 nuclear accord. Before the June strikes, Iran had enriched enough uranium for close to 10 bombs, Western officials say, though U.S. action may have delayed its program by up to two years. Israel has warned it could strike again if Tehran rebuilds.

⚔️ Snapback may not crash Iran’s economy overnight, but it deepens its reliance on Beijing, Moscow, and Gulf intermediaries. Is this leverage for future talks — or the slow erosion of Iran’s sovereignty?

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Cheap Oil, Expensive “Peace”

Trump’s team just rewired the Iran war into a 60‑day oil subsidy. Washington issues a temporary license: Iran can legally sell crude on the international market, at full prices, after years of dumping under‑the‑table barrels at sanctions discounts. In return, there is no concrete nuclear deal — just talk, committees, and a PR fight over who promised what on inspections.

JD Vance calls the first Swiss round “very very good,” claims Tehran agreed to let UN inspectors back into nuclear sites, and Trump blasts online that Iran will accept “Major Weapons Inspections” and “nuclear honesty” for years ahead.

Iranian officials answer flatly: no new commitments, no nuclear clauses in these talks, any IAEA access will be under existing procedures — meaning the limited, heavily managed regime that survived after Trump killed the 2015 deal and before strikes pushed inspectors out. One side sells a breakthrough; the other sells continuity.

Meanwhile, the real leverage sits in Hormuz and Lebanon. Iran is already ramping up exports now that the US naval blockade is lifted, but openly warns that if Israel keeps hitting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, it will keep using the strait as a choke point.

Vance talks about mechanisms to “keep Hormuz open” and de‑confliction cells for Lebanon, yet refuses to say clearly whether Washington is pushing Israel to pull troops from the south. The message to Tehran: you get oil and some cash as long as you don’t blow up the shipping lanes; the message from Tehran: we decide when the lanes stay open.

Trump tries to reassure critics by saying Iran is “supposed to” use the new money to buy food, not weapons. Vance even floats that Tehran will spend unfrozen funds on American soy, wheat and corn.

But the memorandum explicitly lets Iran’s central bank choose where the cash goes, and there’s no sign in Iranian messaging that they’ve agreed to become a captive customer for Midwestern agribusiness. Washington gets talking points; Tehran gets options.

So the “oil waiver” is not a technicality. It’s the core of the trade: immediate economic lifeline for Iran, short‑term price relief for Trump’s voters, and a big IOU on everything the war was sold on — nukes, missiles, proxies, and “neither a dollar nor a drop” for Tehran’s military.

The battlefield pauses, the tankers move, and both sides declare progress, while the hard questions are shoved into committees that may never outlive this 60‑day grace period.

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Trump’s Iran Deal: Oil Now, Nukes Later

The Trump administration just handed Iran the one thing sanctions were supposed to choke forever: the ability to sell oil at full market price again, even as the nuclear file stays deliberately murky.

For 60 days, Treasury has lifted key oil sanctions, letting Tehran pump, ship and charge real prices instead of begging buyers to risk U.S. penalties for a discount. The war isn’t over, but the cash register is back on.

JD Vance came out of day one in Switzerland claiming a win: he says Iran agreed to invite U.N. nuclear inspectors back into its facilities, promising “Major Weapons Inspections” in Trump’s trademark caps.

Tehran’s version? “No new commitments.” Iran’s foreign ministry insists any IAEA access will happen only “under existing procedures,” which could mean the limited, half‑blind inspections that survived after Trump shredded the 2015 deal and after U.S. and Israeli strikes drove inspectors out last year.

The IAEA itself hasn’t rushed to back Vance’s narrative.

The whole thing looks like a badly dubbed replay of the Obama‑era accord Trump called “one of the Worst Deals ever,” right down to the inspectors and sanctions relief — only this time Tehran is sitting across from a man who already tore up one agreement and then bombed its capital.

Iran keeps saying its program is civilian, swears it won’t build a bomb, and vows it will “never back down” from its right to enrich uranium. The hardest questions about how much enriched stockpile stays, where, and under what inspection regime are politely kicked to “later.”

On the ground, the cease-fire architecture is being held together with duct tape and Qatar Airways mileage. Vance and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrapped a marathon session mediated by Qatari and Pakistani officials with talk of “encouraging progress” and new hotlines for the Strait of Hormuz and Lebanon.

Traffic through Hormuz has picked up but remains well below prewar levels, trapped between Vance insisting “the strait is open” and Iran periodically threatening — and sometimes claiming — to close it whenever Israel and Hezbollah trade fire.

Meanwhile, the money question hovers. Vance floated a framework to unfreeze Iranian assets “at a later date,” while Iran’s central bank hints that “necessary memoranda were signed” to start the process.

That ambiguity is the deal in miniature: enough relief to get oil flowing and inflation down before a U.S. election, enough vagueness that both sides can pretend they didn’t blink on nukes.

The war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes in February is now being paused on a 60‑day license and a promise to talk about uranium later. It’s less a grand bargain than a breathing tube — for markets, for Trump, and for a regime that has learned exactly how much pain Washington is willing to take before it starts paying for “peace” it once swore it would never buy.

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Nuclear Theater: Inspectors, Illusions, and Enriched Ego

Rafael Grossi flies to Fukushima and does what technocrats do: waves a memorandum and says the rules are clear.

According to him, the U.S.–Iran understanding explicitly puts all nuclear activity and material under IAEA supervision, “in all letters,” which means inspectors will enter enrichment sites sooner or later.

He talks like timing is a scheduling issue — tomorrow, a week, ten days — not a power struggle, and insists inspections are “going to happen” because the paper says so.

Tehran answers with a cold shrug. Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says access to bombed sites and to the high‑grade uranium will “only” be reviewed within a final deal and only after sanctions are actually lifted, not just promised on TV.

He denies any cozy side‑meeting with Grossi in Switzerland, and warns against people trying to “stir up and take over” reality through media hype — his polite way of saying Vienna and Washington are gaslighting the world with press conferences instead of binding commitments.

Trump, meanwhile, does his own version of nuclear improv on Fox. He tells viewers there’s “no rush” to let inspectors in, and that American teams will walk in alongside IAEA staff “to find the enriched uranium,” like it’s an Easter egg hunt with satellite imagery and airstrikes as the clues. Just weeks earlier he was boasting that any remaining enriched uranium would be handed over to the U.S. or “destroyed in place” under American supervision — which sounds tough until you remember Grossi keeps saying the IAEA still can’t verify where the bulk of that material actually is.

So you get three realities for the price of one. The IAEA insists the framework deal obliges Iran to open the doors and that it’s just a matter of logistics. Iran insists nothing happens until the last sanction is gone and every access request is folded into a final, face‑saving agreement.

Trump insists the uranium is already under control, or soon will be, as long as he’s in the room when the cameras roll. Nobody can actually verify the status of the stockpile since the June strikes, but everyone sells certainty to their own public: Grossi sells “oversight,” Tehran sells “sovereignty,” Trump sells “victory.”

From a distance, it looks less like arms control and more like narrative control. The watchdog needs to prove it matters, so it declares inspections inevitable. The regime needs to prove it didn’t cave, so it delays any access to the sites that really count. The U.S. president needs to prove he “solved” Iran, so he downplays the risk of near‑bomb‑grade uranium buried in tunnels while promising American inspectors will personally babysit it.

And between all these performances sits the actual material that could make up to ten nuclear weapons, unvisited, unverifiable, and far more stable than the politicians arguing over it.

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📰 The Mountain Under Fordow: Iran’s Nuclear Depth Chart Keeps Expanding

Public debate keeps asking whether the war “destroyed” Iran’s nuclear program.

Recent analysis of IAEA data says that’s the wrong question. It notes that most commentary fixates on Iran’s 60% enriched uranium — the material that sits one chemical step from weapons‑grade — while ignoring the hundreds of kilograms at 20% and 5%.

If Tehran chooses to further enrich all three tiers, the combined stockpile can yield fissile material for several nuclear devices at once.

The conclusion from nonproliferation experts is blunt: hitting facilities is not enough; the enriched material itself must be removed from Iran, otherwise the program can be rebuilt or repurposed into a “dirty bomb” scenario.

Satellite imagery from late June 2026, published by the Institute for Science and International Security and other monitors, shows continuing heavy construction at the so‑called Pickaxe Mountain complex — Kuh Kolang Gaz‑La — in the Zagros range, just south of the main Natanz enrichment plant.

Analysts estimate tunnels at roughly 80–100 meters below the surface, potentially deeper than the Fordow facility near Qom, which sits about 80–90 meters underground and has long been seen as the “bunker” of the program.

The new site spans several square kilometers, enough, in their view, to house a full‑scale enrichment cascade or secure storage for near‑weapons‑grade uranium.

IAEA inspectors have never been allowed inside Pickaxe Mountain. Commercial satellite photos show intensified truck traffic, expanding spoil piles, reinforced tunnel entrances and hardened perimeters — all the signature moves of a state preparing an underground facility to survive future airstrikes rather than to comply with transparency rules.

As one technical assessment puts it, the facility is not yet operational but is nearing completion, and its depth and size make it a “potential candidate” for any reestablished centrifuge and enrichment hub once above‑ground sites are hit.

Meanwhile, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi is left issuing generic warnings from Vienna.

After multiple projectile strikes near the Bushehr nuclear plant, he has “reiterated calls for maximum restraint to avoid nuclear safety risks,” stressing that nuclear sites and their surroundings should never be attacked.

But these statements track facilities he has partial access to. The mountain complex south of Natanz — the place most likely to become the next core of Iran’s program — remains outside his inspectors’ reach. The watchdog is watching a map that no longer contains the full project.

Above ground, warheads and headlines talk about “ending” the program. Below ground, a three‑tier stockpile of enriched uranium and a tunnel system dug deeper than Fordow keep that program one decision away from revival.

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🇸🇦☢️ Nuclear Without Normalization: Washington’s 30‑Year Saudi Bet

The US president, Donald Trump, has approved a 30‑year civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that puts American firms at the center of the kingdom’s reactor and fuel build‑out — and keeps open a conditional door to uranium enrichment on Saudi soil.

The agreement is described as a multibillion‑dollar package meant to steer Riyadh away from Russian or Chinese vendors and lock in US influence over its nuclear infrastructure.

One key clause: US companies could build an enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia if a joint study later finds domestic fuel production economically warranted, with the administration arguing that American involvement is itself a safeguard against military misuse.

In plain terms, that is a structured pathway to a Saudi enrichment capability — a potential pathway to weapons if politics shift.

What the deal omits matters just as much. It does not require Saudi Arabia to adopt the IAEA Additional Protocol, which enables broader and more intrusive inspections beyond standard safeguards. It does not include the “gold standard” imposed in some past US nuclear agreements, which flatly bans enrichment and reprocessing — the model used with the UAE.

Congress will have about 90 days to review the agreement, but blocking it would demand a joint resolution and a two‑thirds majority capable of overriding an expected presidential veto, a threshold that makes rejection highly unlikely.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is slated to sign with Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as early as tomorrow.

The final piece changes the whole picture. The president has separated this nuclear package from the condition that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel — a linkage that was central to earlier “grand bargain” plans and has eroded since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and the war that followed.

Under Biden, the idea was a three‑part deal: security guarantees, civil nuclear cooperation and normalization bundled together.

After October 7, that political track stalled; now Washington is moving ahead on the nuclear track alone, with a conditional enrichment option, without the Additional Protocol and without the gold standard, on a three‑decade timeline.

Defenders of the deal argue there is a nonproliferation logic: if Saudi Arabia is going to build nuclear plants, better they be supplied and overseen by American companies than by Russia or China, with weaker transparency and no US leverage.

But that case collides with two hard facts. First, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told CBS back in 2018 that if Iran obtained a nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia would follow “as soon as possible” — an explicit political commitment to match any Iranian bomb.

Second, the US is currently bombing Iran over Hormuz while quietly offering Riyadh a conditional route to enrichment, in a region where the main proliferation fear already runs through Tehran.

In that context, the deal doesn’t just bend US nuclear norms; it rewrites the incentive structure.

A US‑backed Saudi program without the toughest safeguards says that access to advanced nuclear technology can be won without making peace with Israel and without accepting the strict inspection regime Washington used to treat as non‑negotiable.

Over thirty years, what this agreement most reliably guarantees is not stability, but a steady risk of future non‑proliferation crises centered on a kingdom that has already said it will chase Iran’s shadow.

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Eighty Meters of Rock, One Strategic Decision

Fordow was not built as a power plant with a dramatic view. It was built as an insurance policy against air power.

Iran placed the enrichment facility beneath a mountain near Qom, roughly 80 to 90 meters below rock and reinforced concrete. The site is exceptionally difficult to destroy from the air, especially for Israel acting alone.

That is not invulnerability. It is a design choice: make every strike costly, uncertain and politically explosive.

The mountain is only one layer. Iran’s nuclear strategy also depended on procurement networks, dual-use components, compartmentalized research and years of technical work that could be presented as civilian until the day it could not.

The line between enrichment infrastructure and a weapons option is where every inspection regime eventually develops a headache.

The old evidence matters. The 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluded with high confidence that Tehran had halted its structured weapons program in 2003.

It also assessed, with moderate-to-high confidence, that Iran was keeping the option to develop nuclear weapons open. Not a bomb. Not innocence. An option.

That is the real architecture of Iran’s nuclear posture. Bury the machinery. Protect the expertise. Preserve ambiguity.

Let opponents argue endlessly over whether the threshold has already been crossed, while Tehran charges a strategic premium for every attempt to answer the question.

Iran does not need to announce a bomb to reshape the region. It only needs everyone else to plan as if one might be waiting behind eighty meters of rock.

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The Inspector Becomes a Target

The IAEA says it has lost contact with Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran’s answer is to accuse the agency of helping prepare the political and legal case for war.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Rafael Grossi had turned technical reporting into a chain from “political justification” to military aggression.

That is Tehran’s preferred inversion. Inspectors ask where the uranium is. Iran calls them accomplices to the bombing campaign. The watchdog becomes the arsonist because it carried a thermometer.

Trump has made the nuclear issue sound like an election-calendar problem. He said the United States has not attacked Iran “in full” because the midterms are approaching. He said the war could end before the vote.

Then he said it would end “right after” the election. He rejected the idea that it could last through his term.

Trump also said Iran would be treated differently if it had a nuclear weapon. That is the cleanest possible advertisement for getting one.

Washington wants Tehran to abandon the bomb. The president explains why the bomb changes the customer-service experience.

The IAEA Board has referred Iran to the U.N. Security Council over nuclear noncompliance. Iran is limiting inspection access.

The United States is threatening deeper strikes. Tehran says pressure will not make it surrender.

The nuclear file has stopped being a negotiation. It is now a race between enrichment capacity, bunker-busting bombs and the U.S. campaign schedule.

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