Zachary Klement said:
Help me understand.
The White House said we obliterated their nuclear facilities last summer, but now we are concerned with them having nukes that can hit the United States?
After the June 2025 Israeli strikes the IAEA confirmed Iran's enrichment program was significantly set back. That's obliterated in the sense that it was severely degraded not erased from existence permanently.
Iran then spent eight months rebuilding. This is documented. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in December 2025 that Iran appeared to be attempting to rebuild Fordow and said it suggested they "didn't get the full message" from the June strikes.
Iran moved approximately 408 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium to secret locations in deeply buried facilities at Isfahan before the February 2026 strikes.
Iran announced it would build new advanced centrifuges after the IAEA censure. Iran reduced IAEA cooperation to hide its rebuilding progress.
So the actual sequence is:
June 2025 program obliterated by Israeli strikes.
June 2025 through February 2026 Iran rebuilds in hardened underground facilities specifically designed to survive future strikes.
February 2026 program approaching immune status in those hardened facilities, requiring American B-2 bombers with bunker-buster MOPs that only the United States possesses to reach.
Hope that clears things up.