Good day. It's Thursday, June the 19th, 2025. Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder, CEO, and friend, Dr. Jim Denison.

President Trump privately told senior aides late yesterday that he has approved attack plans against Iran,

but is holding off in the hope that threatening to join Israel strikes will lead Tehran to abandon its nuclear program.

At issue is the massive ordinance penetrator bomb, referred to as mop, needed to blow up the Fordow nuclear facility, Iran's fabled nuclear mountain, buried half a mile deep.

Fordow is believed to have some 3,000 sophisticated centrifuges spinning constantly to produce the weapons-grade uranium needed to manufacture

an atomic bomb. Israel does not possess weapons capable of penetrating the facility and destroying

it. Israel could disable Ferdal by striking access points, ventilation shafts, and power supplies

that would heavily impact the use of the facility.

However, these could be repaired more quickly than direct damage to the facility.

Israel could insert troops to invade Fordal and destroy it from within, but this would bring significant risks.

Or, the U.S. could join the conflict by using mops to destroy the facility.

In response, however, Iran could attack our bases and Arab oil fields in the region,

strangle oil shipping by closing the Strait of Hormuz, launch cyber attacks, and employ Houthis to attack Red Sea shipping.

We are already sharing intelligence and helping intercept Iranian missiles and drones.

However, there is something else we also need to share with Israel,

a factor vital to our flourishing and future as a people.

In his latest New York Times column, Thomas Friedman writes that Iran was delusional in thinking it could

drive Israelis out of their biblical homeland. Deceived by the Marxist ideology that framed Israel

as the oppressors and Iranians and Palestinians as the oppressed, they, quote, kept referring

to the Jewish state as a foreign colonial enterprise with no

indigenous connection to the land, end quote. As a result, Iran's leaders apparently believed

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