Can Attack will go with “surgical precision” y Avoid war? The president of the United States, Donald Trump, apostate that the answer is yes but it is too early to know if you are right, a unknown risks and hazards that raises the volatility of an explosive moment and where what happens next is not exclusively in your hand.
This Sunday, hours after join the war that Israel opened on June 13 against Iran and launch attacks against Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan at dawn, the facilities that are the jewel of the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic, the message that tries to record over fire The Republican administration is that this operation, “midnight hammer”, has been a Success in its military objectives but also limited in political goals.
Washington He insists on active and passive that Trump does not seek a prolonged conflict or a regime change. This is what the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, who has assured that Trump gave a “concentrated, powerful and clear” mission “has said in a press conference.
“This is definitely not indefinite,” said Fox News, who has defined the operation as “intentionally limited.” “The mission has not been on regime change ”, He said at another time. “The president authorized a precision operation to neutralize threats to our national interests presented by the Iranian nuclear program and the collective self -defense of our troops and our Israel ally. ”
It is the message that has also tried to cement the Vice -President, JD Vance, that in an interview in NBC he has said sharp: “We are not at war with Iran, we are at war with its nuclear program. We do not want this to be extended or go beyond what we have done. ”We want to end its nuclear program. We want to talk to the Iranians about a long -term agreement.”
The scope of destruction
Washington has not specified the scope of the destruction of the three Iranian military facilities, which were attacked with 75 precision weaponsincluding 14 of the massive gbu-57 antibunker bombsmonsters of almost 14 tons that had never been used in an operation before.
On Saturday night Trump himself assured that the Iranian facilities had been “Completely destroyed” And Hegseth has said at his press conference that the Iranian nuclear program has been “devastated”, But then they have arrived nuances.
Less overwhelming that they have shown General Dan Caine, head of the General Staff of the Defense, who in his appearance with Hegseth has spoken of “Severe damage and destruction” But he has assured that it is too early to say if Iran maintains nuclear capabilities.
Vance, meanwhile, has eluded to give details in his appearance in NBC. “I trust that we have significantly delayed its development of a nuclear weaponand that was the objective of this attack, ”said the vice president.
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