Sunday, June 22, 2025

Public Occurrences June 22, 2025

Trump Did It



10:35 pm

"This is an incomplete strike. If this is all there is, here’s what left: the entire stockpile of 60% uranium, which was stored at Isfahan in tunnels that are untouched. They have the material, they still have the capacity to make centrifuges, and they still have at least one giant underground centrifuge facility where they can install their centrifuges. So, it’s just not done.”


--Jeffrey Lewis, a weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies who has closely reviewed commercial satellite imagery of the strike sites. 

Via CNN

11:10 am

ISRAEL FIRST!

I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
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And I want to just thank everybody. And, in particular, God. I want to just say, we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America. 

(AP)


That's a train schedule update.

Senior Pentagon officials on Sunday described an extraordinary coordinated military operation targeting Iran that took place under utmost secrecy and showcased what the American military was capable of when it put in place its doctrine of using air and naval forces to strike an adversary.

But neither Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nor Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could immediately say whether Iran still retained the ability to make a nuclear weapon. ...

Hegseth: strikes on Iranian nuclear sites caused ‘severe damage’

Caine: strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities inflicted ‘extremely severe damage’

"Severe damage", "complete and total obliteration", "extremely severe damage"--same diff🙄

JD Vance says US has ‘no interest’ in protracted conflict

Oh, but JD, a protracted conflict has an "interest" in US!

(FT)




8:39 am

Not so fast

June 22, 2025, 8:32 a.m. ET 22 minutes ago

Eric Schmitt

Separately, a senior U.S. official who asked for anonymity acknowledged that the B-2 attack on the Fordo site did not destroy the heavily fortified facility but severely damaged it.


8:39 am:
Fodor is Indeed "Gone"



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