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News18
08-08-2025
- Politics
- News18
Iran Joins ICBM Club, 12,000km Khorramshahr-5 Missile Puts "US Mainland Within Range"
Iran may have developed or prepared for testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), called Khorramshahr-5, Mehr News reported on July 27This missile is reportedly capable of a range up to 12,000 kilometers, a speed of Mach 16 and the ability to carry a warhead weighing around two tonsIf verified, these figures would place Iran among the few countries capable of conducting missile strikes across continents 0:00 INTRO1:36 WITH KHORRAMSHAHR-5, IS THE US NOW WITHIN IRAN'S MISSILE REACH?4:17 IRAN EYES LONG-RANGE STRIKE AS TIES WITH RUSSIA, CHINA DEEPENn18oc_world n18oc_crux
Time of India
24-07-2025
- Time of India
Surprise Fighting Erupts In Iran; Several Killed As Iranian Forces Battle Border Attack
Two Iranian border guards were killed by an armed group in a border area in Baneh County on July 23. Mehr News, citing Brigadier General Faraj Rostami, the commander of the Border Command in the Western Province of Kurdistan, reported that Lieutenant Colonel Sajjad Adib and Lieutenant Colonel Ali Badaq were killed after they were shot and succumbed to their severe injuries. Watch this video to know more. Read More
New York Post
24-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Here's how long US strikes may have set back Iran's nuclear program
WASHINGTON — Saturday's US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities set back the Islamic Republic's atomic weapons capabilities by roughly two years, American and Israeli officials and experts tell The Post – adding that Tehran remains 'highly incentivized' to pursue a bomb. While President Trump vowed Tuesday morning that Tehran will 'never rebuild' its nuclear weapons program, Iran's atomic chief claimed that arrangements are already being made to restore the bombed sites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz. 'The plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services,' Mohammad Eslami of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran told Iran's state-owned Mehr News, adding that Tehran had been prepared for airstrikes by the US and Israel to damage the sites. Exact assessments of the damage — which require access to the sites that Iran is unwilling to grant — may never take place. Advertisement 3 Satellite images taken Tuesday of damage at Iran's Fordow facility Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies/AFP via Getty Images But multiple nuclear physicists and national security analysts said the strikes — paired with Israel's 'Operation Rising Lion' campaign targeting top Iranian scientists and military officials — were able to push back Tehran's nuclear timeline to months to years away from making a weapon rather than days to weeks. 'Iran likely requires months, if not years, to restore an option to build nuclear weapons,' said Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Foundation for Defending Democracies' nonproliferation and biodefense program. 'Still, Tehran is highly incentivized to cobble together a crash nuclear weapons effort using what it has.' Advertisement 'The United States and Israel may need to conduct additional strikes to ensure that threat is eliminated,' Stricker added. 'Alternatively, or alongside, Washington can insist Iran to agree to a deal for the full, verifiable, and permanent dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program and remaining assets.' Where's the uranium? Israelis are highly concerned that Iran will reconstitute its program, though there is a general sense of relief that the threat has at least been temporarily eased, said Scott Feltman, the vice president of One Israel Fund, which raises money for Jews living in the West Bank. 'There is a very, very real fear, but [Israeli Prime Minister] Bibi Netanyahu has been on this bandwagon for 20 years. I don't think he would have agreed to the cease-fire if he didn't think that, at the very least, that it set them back a few years, if not more. 'But I don't believe that he feels that Iran could ever be trusted in the current regime.' Advertisement 3 Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei watches a nuclear demonstration in 2023 via REUTERS Imagery from open-source satellite images taken Thursday and Friday showed more than a dozen cargo-style trucks lined up outside the gates of Fordow, leading some to express suspicion that Tehran evacuated the nuclear fuel prior to the US strikes. Others have suggested the trucks were being used to block tunnel entrances with earth in an attempt to mitigate the impact of US bunker bombs. If Iran was able to remove its estimated 400kg — about 880 pounds — of uranium enriched to 60% purity, the countdown to a weapon could grow short once again, DC-based nuclear physicist Steve Nelson told The Post. 'The thing about being enriched beyond 20% is that it makes it way easier to enrich it to 93%, which is basically weapons grade,' Nelson said. 'And then once you get to 90% to 93%, somewhere in that range, you can make a nuclear weapon out of uranium very easily.' Advertisement On Monday, the Iranian parliament's national security committee indefinitely suspended its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, preventing the United Nations organization from overseeing Tehran's nuclear activities. 'The Iranian nuclear program has been set back significantly … We have to see what they want to do. Do they, are they going to reconstruct what they have?' IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told Fox News on Tuesday. 3 The Arak heavy water reactor, pictured in 2019. AP Regardless of whether the uranium was salvaged, Stricker said it remains unlikely that Iran would be capable of producing a nuclear weapon anytime soon, as Tehran would still need to reconstruct enrichment facilities damaged or destroyed in the US strikes to push the 60% uranium to the amount required for a bomb. 'While it may still have possession of some amount of highly enriched uranium, it likely lacks the capacity to weaponize it for nuclear bombs,' she said. 'Prior to the US bombing, Israel carried out massive strikes on the regime's weaponization headquarters, facilities, equipment, bomb components, documentation and key scientists.' What remains? Calls for additional strikes on Iranian nuclear strikes could grow louder after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt acknowledged Tuesday that at least one intelligence assessment indicated the US strikes had not completely destroyed Iran's centrifuges. Leavitt denied the accuracy of the assessment — which was leaked to CNN and the New York Times and claimed the strikes only set Tehran's program back by a few months — and chastised its author as a 'low-level loser.' 'The Israeli and American strikes on Iran's nuclear program have set it back severely, but the question is just how far,' said Ilan Evyatar, author of the book 'Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East.' Advertisement 'Israeli intelligence believes that Natanz has been completely destroyed, but the picture at Fordow is not yet completely clear. In any event however, even if the centrifuge halls — which are hundreds of meters below ground — have not been destroyed, the force of the blasts is likely to have destroyed the centrifuges,' he said. Grossi, speaking before the initial intelligence assessment was reported, added to Fox News that the difference in Iran's capabilities was 'night and day' from before Israeli airstrikes began June 13. Without centrifuges, some analysts have said Iran could give some of its uranium to a proxy group like Hezbollah or Yemen's Houthi's 'to create a radiological dispersal device or RDD, known as a dirty bomb,' but that path is unlikely, according to Stricker. Advertisement 'There is a real question of whether Tehran would do so, given that creating a mass panic and threatening use of an RDD would invite swift Israeli and US efforts to fully eliminate the supreme leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei], top leadership, and the regime's proxies. 'Iran is taking more measured steps to ensure its survival and probably wants to preserve its remaining [highly-enriched uranium] to build back its own nuclear weapons option. '
LBCI
24-06-2025
- Business
- LBCI
Iran is looking to restore its nuclear industry: Iran's nuclear chief
Iran is assessing damage to its nuclear industry and arrangements had been made for its restoration, Iran's nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said Tuesday according to Mehr news, after a series of Israeli and U.S. strikes targeted Iran's main nuclear facilities. "The plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services," Eslami said.
Middle East Eye
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Iran says damage to nuclear sites being assessed, restoration underway
Iran's nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, has said that an assessment is being carried out to determine the extent of the damage to the country's nuclear facilities, following joint Israeli and US strikes. According to remarks reported by Mehr News on Tuesday, arrangements have been made to begin restoration work. 'The plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services,' Eslami said
