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Iran is preparing the next step in what one security expert warns. nuclear weapons.
“Repairs, reconstructions, and reconstructions will be the tricks of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Ben Ben Tareble, senior director of the Iranian program at the Democracy Foundation, told Fox News Digital. “Is it dependent on how they do it? While flirting with the international community? Will they get completely dark?
“All of this remains unseen,” he added.
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Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei will address the media during the votes for parliamentary elections held in Tehran, Iran on May 10, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Fateme Mohajelani, a spokesman for the administration; It was confirmed this week The nuclear sites of Fordor, Isfahan and Natanz had been “severely damaged” after the US and Israel attacked by Iran’s nuclear program last month.
Questions remain Severity of damage It happened, similar to skepticism about whether Iran could have kept its enriched uranium or centrifuges from strictly protected locations prior to the strike.
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it “deletes” the three facilities it attacked. He was denied enthusiastically Israeli officials confirmed this week that they continue to monitor the situation closely, according to reports suggesting that Iranian officials may have been able to transfer some elements of the administration’s coveted nuclear program.
US and Israeli experts say they believe Iran is still assessing the extent of damage from. “Bunker Busting” bomband that the administration is aiming to restore and repair what it can do, meaning it may be looking to buy time.
“Undoubtedly, the administration still has a diplomatic strategy designed to rope anyone.
Iranian government This week, Iranian officials have said the time slot is overly ambitious, though it suggested that President Donald Trump would signal talks could begin soon next week.
“I don’t think negotiations will resume that quickly,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araguchi said in an interview with CBS News. “The door to diplomacy will never be closed.”
This satellite photo by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran’s underground nuclear enrichment site in Fordow following a US airstrike targeting the facility on Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
However, the administration has also taken steps to further obstruct the UN nuclear observers. The national nuclear program – And on Wednesday it stopped all interactions with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
That same day, the State Department denounced the move, with spokesman Tammy Bruce saying “it is unacceptable that Iran chose to suspend cooperation with the IAEA when it has the opportunity to reverse the course and choose a path of peace and prosperity.”
Iran has restricted access to the IAEA in the past, and Ben Talebri claimed he would like to do this again when Tehran tries to keep it You can have a negotiation tip.
“The next step in Iran’s Islamic Republic, and the most dangerous capacity at present, is its diplomatic capabilities,” argued Iran’s security expert. “This is the ability of the administration to enter negotiations with a weaker hand and leave with a strong hand or try to prevent the enemy’s military victory from becoming a political victory.
“If negotiations are made between the US and Iranians, whether they are direct or indirect, Iranians will be hanging IAEA access. This is already their most important weapon,” he added.
Ben Taleblu not only allows Iran to play for time by using the IAEA as a negotiation chip; They are trying to reestablish the nuclear programbut sowing the division of the United States by creating uncertainty.
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This photo was released on November 5th, 2019 by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. (Iranian atomic energy organization, file via AP)
“By reducing surveillance, blocking and even reducing IAEA access to these facilities, the administration is trying to make America have to resort to intelligence alone,” he said. “And as you see, as you can see from the very political discussions about combat damage assessments, relying solely on intelligence without the ground sources that record fission material can deprive you of dramatically different conclusions by similar intelligence organisations and representatives.”
Ultimately, Iran is not going to give up its nuclear ambitions, warned Ben Talebri, saying that Tehran’s security equipment had completely changed during the war with Iraq in the 1980s.
“Everything we faced from the administration, a safe threat at the time, began. Ballistic missile programs, drone programs, maritime attacks, cross-border terrorist devices, nuclear programs all originated in the 1980s,” he said. “By reviving this nuclear program, the Islamic Republic was not engaged in science fair experiments.
The large flag depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, placed next to a ballistic missile in Bahrestan Square in Tehran, Iran on September 26, 2024, is a side job at an exhibition celebrating the 44th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war. (Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP Getty Images)
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“The Islamic Republic was hoping for the ultimate deterrent,” continued Ben Talebri. “I had a vision of what the region and the world should look like and was willing to put the muscles of foreign policy and the resources of the state behind that vision, so it was sought for the ultimate deterrence.”
Experts from the Iranian regime warned that Iran’s 40-year “obsessions” would not change due to US military intervention by developing a nuclear program to achieve geopolitical objectives.
