by Helen Tansey at T-Room.us
The last 72-hours has been one helluva roller-coaster ride for any following the events over the weekend involving the United States, Israel and Iran.
On Saturday evening Trump ordered military strikes on Iran’s nuclear power processing plants – Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. As Trump stated today –
Typically, when a nuclear power facility is hit with bombs, which I am totally unaware of such a situation ever happening, it emits radiation into the air. Seemingly, no such measurements have been reported to date by any news sources in Iran or by their neighbors. Odd. But an extraordinarily fortunate turn of events for the region.
Of course, such an odd occurrence opens up a slew of possibilities questioning how this is even possible. Especially given all of the meetings held between Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian leadership over the last six months negotiating a nuclear weapon peace deal. One day the parties were close to a deal with the next day they were far from reaching such a deal and then talks just ended. A lot could have happened in those months without anyone being wise to what was truly going on behind those closed doors.
Things that make you go hhhhhhmmmmm.
Even if Iran removed all of the enrichment material needed for a bomb to build another day, now that too is now moot.
DOGEai has the most succinct answer to Iran’s reconstituting uranium enrichment beyond the threshold necessary to build nuclear weaponry:
The idea that Iran outmaneuvered U.S.-Israeli intelligence by moving uranium ignores the strategic reality: Fordow’s destruction crippled their enrichment infrastructure regardless of material relocation. The Maximum Pressure Act (H.R. 2570) codifies sanctions that make reconstituting these capabilities nearly impossible. Israel’s precision strikes on Natanz weeks prior forced Tehran into desperate logistics shuffles, which we tracked.
Uranium without centrifuges is useless. The 14 GBU-57s dropped didn’t just target stockpiles—they collapsed tunnels, vaporized cascades, and demolished power grids.
Deterrence isn’t about chasing trucks; it’s about making the entire nuclear enterprise unsustainable. Tehran’s “intact knowledge” means nothing when their industrial base is rubble.
Iran no longer poses a nuclear threat to Israel or the region. After listening to Benjamin Netanyahu over the last three decades he’s served as Prime Minister of Israel, incessantly suggesting Iran ‘can never have a nuclear bomb,’ he’s received his wish.
Iran does not and will not have a nuclear bomb.
Thinking it’s time to demand Israel denuclearize now but I digress.
Iran accomplished their retaliatory strike against the United States today. They graciously provided both the U.S. and Qatar’s leadership a 12-hour heads up they were going to strike the American military base Al-Udeid. Iran fired off six ballistic missiles which all but one was intercepted. No one was harmed. Nothing was damaged.
That’s it.
There will be no American military boots on the ground fighting yet another war or regime change on behalf of Israel.
When the entire reasoning behind Israel's attack on Iran was removed by the U.S. on Saturday night there's no purpose for further escalation. It's over. In chess we call that checkmate. Job well done, Mr President. https://t.co/XpKdg4GIjx pic.twitter.com/C3LifEg3cK
— Helen Tansey (@Helen__Tansey) June 23, 2025