CNN
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From the start of Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Iranian targets earlier this month, the aims of the operation were made perfectly clear.
The intention, one Israeli military official carefully spelled out to CNN, was to permanently remove the Islamic Republic’s “existential” nuclear and ballistic missile threats.
After the United States joined in at the weekend, pounding Iranian nuclear facilities with powerful bunker-busting munitions, President Donald Trump insisted the strikes were a “spectacular military success” and that Iran’s nuclear facilities had been “totally obliterated.”
But with a ceasefire now in place,…
