Expert on nuclear affairs and former Mossad agent Avner Willan, regarding the International Atomic Energy Agency report on the Isfaya site:
If there was indeed a uranium enrichment site, and possibly also fissile material (perhaps part of the 60% enriched material), then the assumption that the Iranians did not know how to dig and access the material during the past year and a half seems even more dangerous to me.
It's a large site with many buildings and entrances, and I'm sure Iran managed to carry out operations around it that would hide access to the materials and centrifuges.
I guess I am not providing much new information here for the fellows which is their job. There was a reason the American bombs were sent there.
But let me be skeptical about our ability to monitor any activity from the air.
what does that mean We are not talking here about a game-changing development, but a painful reminder that after two rounds of war, and after all the talk and statements that said we are "setting them back generations" or other nonsense, Iran is still dangerously close to being able to develop nuclear weapons, and has every motive and interest to do so.
Before we try to repeat the same approach and embark on another round of conflict, which will impose heavy costs on Iran, but also on the countries of the region, Israel and its international status, perhaps this time we will ask ourselves: what is the purpose of this round, and what will be different after it?
Because if the regime does not fall, and the uranium remains inside Iran, then what are we trying to achieve, and how does the chosen course of action bring us closer to achieving it?