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Israeli sources believe that the attack on Iran last month hampered the Islamic Republic’s development of two types of nuclear warheads and an “electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon that could cripple Israel electronically,” The Washington Post reported on July 26.
Israel launched the attack on June 13, stating that its goal was to cripple Iran’s nuclear program. Later, however, it expanded its targets to include the Islamic Republic’s missile program. A ceasefire was suddenly announced on June 24, just two days after the United States joined the war by attacking three key nuclear sites.
The damage to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs was compounded by Israel’s assassination of the first tier, second tier and most of the third tier of Iranian physicists and nuclear scientists, sources cited by the Post said.
The assassinations reportedly halted Iran’s development of the EMP, a weapon that emits powerful bursts of electromagnetic energy that can paralyze electrical networks.
Development of an EMP weapon was promoted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as an alternative to nuclear arms, since atomic weapons are nominally banned under a religious decree, known as “fatwa” in Arabic, by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to the Post.
Despite Khamenei’s fatwa, Israeli sources told the newspaper that they believe Iran was making progress on two types of nuclear warheads: a standard fission warhead, which splits atoms, and a more complex fusion warhead, which forces atoms together.
Work on the fusion-warhead project was halted as a result of Israel’s strikes against Iranian nuclear scientists, the Post said.
“Iran is no longer a nuclear threshold state” and would require one to two years to build a nuclear weapon, a well-informed Israeli source told the newspaper, noting that Israel would likely be able to detect and destroy a potential Iranian effort to quickly build a crude nuclear device.
The Israeli attack on Iran claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, according to the authorities of the Islamic Republic. Iran retaliated with a series of deadly ballistic missile attacks that killed 28 people in Israel.
While Israel officials, including those who spoke to the Post, insist that the attack dealt a heavy blow to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, there are strong indications that Israel may be actually preparing another attack on the Islamic Republic.
Last month, Mossad chief David Barnea said that Israel inflicted significant damage on Iran but indicated that Israel needs to continue its operations.
Furthermore, a report published by The New York Times earlier in the week revealed that Israel might be behind a series of blasts that rocked the Islamic Republic. The series began after the end of the 12-day war.
Defense Minister Israel Katz also warned very recently that a renewed campaign against the Islamic Republic was a possibility.
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hey southfront, are we chearleading israel now and just repeating their propaganda? what other purpose does this story have.
no facts, just unverifiable claims.
is this your attempt to not sound bias?
keep crying antisemite!
criticizing that entity is not criticizing all jews as a religion as criticizing the united arab emirates would not be criticizing all muslims or criticizing poland would not be criticizing all christians. more and more jews do not want to be associated to that entity.
you leave out the fact that the biggest zi0ni$t and it’s government sits in washington d.c. just take a stroll through any of the congressional offices and every other door to a u.$. representative has an i$raeli flag and an endorsement poster for genocide of the palestinians… i hate i$rael as the parasite that they are to my country… but i put the biggest onus on the u.$. for that “para$ite” they created not just for america but for the rest of the world!…
the biden regime was 75% kosher. the chump regime is 175% kosher. zog rules over the jewsa.
it’s been a very long sordid feted road since the assassination of jfk and the u$$ liberty ordeal under p0tu$ tiny hat lbj…
and we know that ur just one person, a failed script writer who now earns your living by pretending to be different characters on these sites
puoi credere e pregare chi vuoi tu, ma sterminare un popolo sei un criminale genocida e lo resterai per sempre hai superato i tedeschi degni compari
ur a very threatened little boy with massive insecurity from your having been sexually abused by a trusted authority figure i’d suggest by your speech your predilection for revelling in a al sexual acts anf your overall lack of moral compass.
askenazis are not semites. the only semites in occupied palestine are arabs, sir. you “jews”, you are turkotatars.
igor is right. khazars are not semites, they have mongol, turkic, kurdish and slavic dna
agreed, total nonsense, makes me wonder why i still bother reading southfront
iran was bitch-slapped by israel & usa…heheheh
iran = bitch
no, the jewsa is israhell’s bitch.
“israeli sources believe…” are these the same sources that believe that yahweh will return so that the israelites can enslave all other peoples on earth?
the shah’s army invaded iran. it is made up of taliban fanatics, pakistani mercenaries, israeli thieves, and iranian supporters of the shah. their intention is clear: to take over tehran, and they have already blown up the palace of justice.
look at your stupid names they shouldn’t pay you for that attempt at work.
just as you iranians did not help bashar al-assad, (and four months later didn’t help the alawites ). no one will help you either. independent troops are emerging in pakistan and israel, made up of israeli thieves, shah fanatics, pakistani and tajik mercenaries (including isis-k), afghan taliban, al qaeda, and, of course, jolani’s psychopaths.
independent forces are emerging in israel and balochistan, consisting of afghan taliban, pakistani and tajik isis-k members, jolani fanatics, iranian supporters of the shah, ukrainian mercenaries, israeli thiefs and libyan al qaeda. the goal is clear, to capture tehran as they previously captured damascus. what good is an atomic bomb if your opponent drives toyotas and opponents drones fly through the air?
re iran see, heretics podcast with the iranian guest speaker spilling the dirt on that msm propaganda.
le armi elettromagnetiche sono molto efficaci la russia non le ha.
“thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor”
if the lying jooz and the lying zionist wapo say so, i suppose it must be true.
th us has been funding emp weapons for years . so technological advance would be shared or easily stolen by mossad . how did israel get nukes ?.
this hasbara propagagand is getting funnier by the day
lmao….not even us/russia and china have eletromagnetic weapons (non nuclear of course) explode a nuke in the space, above any country and every electronic thing will go kaput!
non nuclear eletromagnetic weapons are far away from iran! maybe china will have them first…like they developed the first non-nuclear fusion bomb…
southfront never heard of k-series nuclear explosions that the soviets did in the 60s? no need to kill anyone, just explode a nuke at 350 km of altitude… all the modern electronic life go away!
israel’s position is to lie in the press, and act in the shadows. what they claim has no connection to reality, while what they do is often claimed to be an accident or not them at all