What did Israel's attack on the "heart" of Iran's nuclear program achieve?
The Israeli military strike on Iran early this Friday represents a significant escalation in its long-standing campaign to disrupt Tehran's nuclear ambitions; it targeted the heart of Iran's nuclear infrastructure in the largest known attack on the country to date.
The 2015 nuclear agreement represented a temporary success in curbing Iran's program, according to The New York Times, as it forced Iran to abandon 97% of its enriched uranium and set the enrichment level to a non-weaponized level.
However, after President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the agreement in 2018, Iran resumed enrichment activities and ultimately accelerated them, impacting global financial markets that witnessed sell-offs worth millions of dollars
