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Nuclear proliferation experts are sounding the alarm. Nuclear catastrophe is now CLOSER because Trump chose bombs over a deal Iran had already agreed to, according to experts.
Just one day before the strikes began, Oman's foreign minister announced that Iran had agreed to downgrade its enriched uranium stockpile and submit to full international verification.
Diplomacy was working. The UN Secretary-General said the military operation "squandered an opportunity" for a negotiated resolution.
Instead, Trump chose bombs. The operation killed Supreme Leader Khamenei, leveled military sites across multiple cities, and explicitly aimed at regime change, something no American president has ever openly pursued against Iran through direct military force.
Now for the part nobody in the White House wants to discuss. The IAEA confirmed it has no indication that nuclear installations were destroyed in the strikes, and Iran's deep underground enrichment facilities at Isfahan and Natanz survived previous bombing runs.
Iran kicked out UN inspectors after those earlier attacks, meaning the international watchdog can no longer verify the status of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile, enough material for over ten warheads.
One scholar at the Middlebury Institute warned that a surviving, vengeful Iran will likely reach the same conclusion North Korea did: in a world where the US bombs you mid-negotiation, going nuclear is the only rational move.
Brookings analysts noted that the regime's deeply embedded networks won't simply disappear, and a destabilized Iran creates terrifying scenarios around unsecured nuclear material.
Russia called the strikes an unprovoked act of aggression. China called them brazen. Trump is posting victory laps on Truth Social.
This isn't strength. It's the most reckless foreign policy gamble since Iraq, launched by the same people who learned nothing from it.
