Iran Claims Victory Over Israel Despite Nuclear Program Damage
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Fatima Saif
- . June 27, 2025
- . Update: June 27, 2025 5:04 pm
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has already proclaimed that Iran has won the war against Israel, even though there is growing evidence that the best the Islamic Republic can now do is ruin their ability to conduct nuclear activities. The recalcitrant rhetoric associated with the Iranian leader is made as the international community confirms reports that indicate widespread destruction of the main nuclear installations in the country.
Iran Nuclear Program Faces Major Setbacks
The American and Israeli intelligence reports show that Iran has lost several years in its nuclear program due to the implementation of the simultaneous bombing of the key installations. The three main sites of Iranian uranium enrichment activities were hit in the blasts: Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordo centers.
According to Rafael Mariano Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there is indeed substantial physical destruction of these installations, based on photographs, as well as the deep understanding of Iranian nuclear sites by the agency. The IAEA director-general had described his outrage at the Iranian choice to end all collaboration with international nuclear safety regulators as “enormous“.
The video that he addressed was the first appearance since the adoption of the cease-fire agreement, yet his location was not disclosed due to security concerns.
Referring to international media, Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani admitted to international media that nuclear sites had been seriously damaged, but she still maintained that Iran would be pursuing its nuclear program. She underlined that Iran did not want to create a nuclear weapon, but the nation would obtain needed scientific materials about its atomic aspirations.
The number of people who suffered as a direct result of the latest war gives a different impression to the claims of Khamenei of victory. Iranian sources reported more than 1,000 dead persons in Iran, including 318 military forces and at least 30 top commanders. Weapons fired back by Israel, on the contrary, had killed 28 of its people; all citizens killed by the missiles that went through air defense systems.
The missile outrages of the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar by Iran did not claim any damage, since all the missiles were intercepted by defense systems, as it has thousands of American forces. This was a military fiasco that went against Khamenei’s claim of administering a slap on the face of American forces.
Iranian parliament has passed a law that virtually bans the interaction of the government with the IAEA inspectors in an apparent situation that Grossi termed as a possible big crisis in international nuclear surveillance. The law, which has been ratified by the Guardian Council in Iran, is irreversible and becomes a full-blown sign of a possible drastic increase in tension between Iran and the rest of the world.
According to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the IAEA keeps the inspectors in Iran, though their future accessibility is unknown. Grossi pointed out that the international inspection is a legal requirement and can under no condition be blocked by one side, where disastrous results may follow in case Iran acts on its threats.
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