Richard Goldberg
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first heard Jan 2026
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Yeah, I mean, I think when we got into the ceasefire period here, you know, after five plus weeks of military operations, it seemed pretty clear that we were nearing completion of the target set that Central Command would have come in with for as much that you can do from the air and sea.
Obviously, understanding this is not a ground operation that the president is committing the United States to.
And Iran does have hardened facilities underground where they would try to put their leadership who survived decapitation strikes into bunkers.
They have missile cities deep underground as well that they've tried to harden from potential military strike, even from B-2 bombers.
And so when they've been out there launching missiles, we've been tracking as many of them as possible, destroying launchers, destroying stockpiles.
Some of those missile cities probably did blow up.
Some of them didn't.
We went upstream for their ability to reconstitute their industrial base for their missiles, for their drones, for their other conventional arms.
All of that seems to be pretty decimated at this point.
And their nuclear facilities, several of them, we think about some of the key ones, like from last year in Operation Midnight Hammer, the enrichment facilities that were hit.
We think about Pickaxe Mountain, which is supposed to be a newer enrichment facility nearing completion that hasn't been hit yet.
deep under a mountain.
We're concerned about that one.
But there are a number of sites that have been destroyed all up and down the supply chain that you need to enrich uranium, that you need to further enrich uranium, produce centrifuges, produce cascades, all the different things you need to be a threat on the nuclear side.
Nuclear scientists have been targeted.
All the weapon-related sites, it would appear that at least the Israelis had intel on, were targeted, including R&D laboratories in university settings.
So there's a lot of damage that's been done, but obviously this is a regime with thousands of short-range ballistic missiles, an unknown number of medium-range, intermediate-range potentially remaining, though I imagine they've stretched a lot of their stockpiles there.
some number of drones remaining in these hardened facilities.
So we've seen their ability to reach out and touch the Gulf.
That can continue.
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