June 21, 2025
Attacks on Iran have delayed its nuclear program by years, Israel says
According to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s estimates, Israel’s attacks on Iran have slowed down the Islamic Republic’s development of a nuclear bomb by several years.
“I believe, according to the assessments we hear, we have already delayed their ability to obtain a nuclear bomb by at least two or three years,” Saar said in an interview with the German tabloid Bild newspaper.
“The fact that we have eliminated those individuals who led and advanced the weaponization of the nuclear program is extremely important in terms of the results,” he said.
“We have already achieved a lot. But we will do whatever we can. We will not stop until we have done everything possible to eliminate this threat,” Saar said.
The conflict between Israel and Iran erupted a week ago with Israeli airstrikes targeting nuclear and military sites, top generals and nuclear scientists.
The Iranian state news agency Tasnim named the “martyred” scientists as “Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Ahmadreza Zolfaghari, Amirhossein Feqhi, Motalleblizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoun Abbasi.”
Israel is convinced that Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon, an accusation that Iranian leadership has repeatedly rejected.
Iran has maintained that its nuclear program is meant for civilian rather than military purposes. However, experts and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog which inspects nuclear facilities, have questioned and criticized the Iranian claims.
