Iran and Its Nuclear Program Have Survived

Germany, not Israel, will be the one to destroy Iran. Our main story examines Germany’s growing new start-up scene—particularly in defense technology.

The end of the Iran war? Since Israel began bombing Iran we’ve had a clear forecast: Iran will survive. Bible prophecy is clear: Iran will provoke world war by attacking Europe.

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But how could Iran survive? Israel was inflicting massive damage. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump were both talking about overthrowing the mullahs’ oppressive regime. Over the weekend, America joined the war. Iran was on the ropes. With a little more perseverance, would Israel and America finish it off?

Now we see the answer. Yesterday, Iran struck a U.S. military base in Qatar, but in the softest of ways. They gave the U.S. a heads-up the attack was coming, and no one was hurt.

Iran’s leaders could have chosen a number of much more destructive responses. But that would have brought down the wrath of the U.S. even harder on their heads. So the mullahs decided to cower before Trump and live to fight another day.

Soon after the attack, President Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire,” due to begin today at 7 a.m., Israel time.

That ceasefire may not work. An Iranian missile strike hit Beersheba right around the ceasefire deadline, killing four. Later, Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed the ceasefire. He said Israel had taken care of the “dual immediate existential threat” from Iran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, “inflicted severe damage on the military leadership, and destroyed dozens of central Iranian government targets.”

After that, however, Israel said missiles were launched from Iran. Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “I instructed the Israeli Army to respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire by launching powerful strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.”

Whether the ceasefire falls apart or holds, President Trump has shown his hand. He’s OK with letting Iran survive.

Did Iran’s nuclear program survive too? Yesterday we warned that Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium was still unaccounted for and that Fordow may not have been completely destroyed. The evidence continues to mount that Iran still has the ability to build a bomb:

• Satellite imagery shows 16 trucks leaving the Fordow nuclear site on June 19, three days before America bombed it. These trucks probably took Iran’s 60 percent enriched uranium and distributed it throughout the country.
• Iran has even more 25 percent enriched uranium, which would be harder and take longer to get to weapons grade, but Iran has the know-how to do it.

Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin, an expert in the development of nuclear weapons from the University of Bradford, warned that Iran’s nuclear program could continue:

While Iran’s nuclear program has clearly been devastated for now—if fissile uranium has not been destroyed or seized—then rebuilding may arise more rapidly than we expect. … Iran could rebuild its nuclear weapons program far more rapidly, even if large enrichment plants have been successfully destroyed, by smaller, covert sites to complete the enrichment process. In this scenario, Iran could produce enough 90 percent weapons grade uranium for a nuclear weapon in a couple of months—and without further intervention—could possess a nuclear warhead by this time next year.

Others have sounded similar warnings

• “It is highly likely that Iran maintains the capacity to reconstitute a cascade of working centrifuges and therefore uranium enrichment capacities relatively soon.”
  —Prof. Christoph Bluth, University of Bradford
• “I’m sure they have a hidden place somewhere with some hundreds, if not thousands of centrifuge[s], and they have material all there in several places all over Iran. They cannot do anything now, tomorrow, but in the future, they have all the capabilities.”
  —Sima Shine, former research director at Mossad
• “Tehran may yet rise from the ashes. The Islamic regime has retreated to lick its wounds—but it has not been destroyed.”
  —Daily Telegraph

Even more ominously, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said, “A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.”

President Trump had the courage to strike at the head of the terrorist snake in a way that no president has in decades, but one of his core failings, which Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has warned about since the start of Trump’s second term, remains: Donald Trump does not know the way to peace. Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry called it “The Fatal Flaw in Trump’s Foreign Policy” in the cover article of the May-June 2025 Trumpet issue.

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