Israeli assessment: American strikes have given the Iranian nuclear program “many years”

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An Israeli assessment has determined that American strikes on Iran have given the country’s nuclear program “of many years”.
The Israeli Atomic Energy Commission said that the United States had destroyed “critical infrastructure” to Fordow nuclear installation and made it “inoperable”.
“The devastating strike of the United States on Fordow has destroyed the critical infrastructure of the site and made the inoperable enrichment facilities. We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear installations, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of the Iran’s military nuclear program, declared Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons in many years,” Israel’s energies commission said the Energies Commission. “The realization can continue indefinitely if Iran does not have access to nuclear materials.”

President Donald Trump, on the right, holds a meeting alongside Vice-President JD Vance in the White House situation room in Washington, DC, on June 21, 2025. (The White House / Handout via Reuters)
The satellite image shows a ford nuclear installation after a massive bombs strike
The Israeli evaluation apparently aligns with the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Affairs Esmail Baghaei on the status of the site. According to the Associated PressBaghaei said that “the country’s nuclear installations were seriously damaged, for sure”.
In the early hours of June 22, local time, the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear installations of Iran were affected. B-2 American stealth bombers used 30,000 pound bunker on Fordow, which was the main underground enrichment site in Iran.

A card shows that the United States is hitting Iran. (Fox News)
American air strikes leave a brand on Iranian nuclear sites, reveal the Maxar satellite images
Israel hit the site again on Monday while the country was making strikes on roads leading to underground installation.
The latest strike on Fordow comes when Israeli defense forces said that Israel had also launched a series of strikes aimed at the notorious of Evin prison and several Iranian military command centers in a “continuous effort to degrade the military capacities of the Iranian regime”.

This comparison of satellite images of Maxar Technologies shows a nuclear installation near Fordwow, Iran, before and after the US air strikes was made on June 22, 2025. The strike targeted the suspected tunnel entries associated with the underground enrichment infrastructure of Iran. (Maxar Technologies)
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Iranian nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said on Tuesday that the country evaluated damage and was preparing to restore the facilities, According to Reuters. He added that “Iran’s plan is to prevent interruptions from the production and services process”.
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to answer if Iran reconstructs his nuclear program.
Stephen Sorace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.