The truth about Iran’s nuclear programme

Today in Focus

The Guardian

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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After 12 days of bombing by Israel and the US last month, opinions vary about the extent of the damage caused to Iran’s nuclear facilities. Patrick Wintour and Rouzbeh Parsi explain why and what could happen next. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:04.0	Today, how much of Iran's nuclear program really survived the war?
0:13.0	And what will they do with it now?
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1:27.4	The war that we just saw between Iran, Israel, and the US started on this murky pretext.
1:34.4	The Israelis saying Iran was on the verge of a bomb, in contrast to US intelligence assessments,
1:40.8	saying it was very much not.
1:42.7	The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, and Supreme
1:47.2	Leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.
1:53.2	Assessments that Donald Trump claimed, without much explanation, were wrong.
1:57.6	Well, then my intelligence community is wrong.
2:00.2	Who in the intelligence community said that?
2:02.5	You're a director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
2:05.2	She's wrong.
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