A Paper Tiger
The creepy mystique of the supposedly indomitable was the bane of the last seven American presidents. Iran’s threats lasted for over half a century. Finally, Iran has been exposed for the Paper Tiger it is.
“Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, adding that this is “the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out—and a ceasefire.”
Where is the dreaded decades-long Iranian nuclear threat? Gone, at least for now. Should it resurface, it will be easier to vaporize at will than to rebuild a trillion-dollar investment, VDH reminds readers.
Who Came to Aid Iran?
Russia Cut Its Losses…
Putin exited the Middle East, not entirely displeased that his lunatic Iranian client did not get a bomb—but did get its just desserts. A tense Middle East tends to prop up Russian export oil prices.
China Wasn’t Hesitant …
China ordered its Iranian lackey to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, through which 50% of Chinese-purchased oil passes.
Half a century of cyber terrorism, empty nuke threats, mindless mobs screaming scripted banalities, cowardly murdering, and medieval theocrats threatening the general peace eventually got on everyone’s nerves.
According to David Albright, an American physicist and a weapons expert who is the founder of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), its current president, and author of several books on proliferation of atomic weapons:
“Overall, Israel’s and U.S. attacks have effectively destroyed Iran’s centrifuge enrichment program. It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack.”
In case you were wondering, a decisive step of the bomb-making process is called metallization. Metallization turns enriched uranium into a metal that becomes the explosive core of a nuclear weapon. So “if there’s no metallization, there’s no bomb.”
Rebuilding the crucial sites could take years. “It’s a bottleneck,” adds David Albrigh, who says Iran will have to rebuild its facilities.
It appears Israeli and U.S. attacks destroyed —you could say “obliterated”— Iran’s metallization capacity.
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