J.E. Dyer
The Optimistic Conservative, Oct. 30, 2024
“Taleghan 2 exists only for the purpose of supporting the Iranian nuclear weapons program.”
The purpose of this article is to highlight the nuclear program target struck in Iran by Israel on 26 October 2024. Public reporting has not counted this target as a “nuclear program target.” But the history of the facility is connected solely to the Iranian nuclear weapons program, and there is good reason to believe it continues to be. The fact that Israel found it worth attacking in a limited strike is a strong indication of that – whatever its current state of activity.
(Note: See the tweeted information from the ISIS Institute below, posted at X/Twitter since this article was begun.)
The target, if it retained the character of its surrounding, operationally-linked buildings, would be an element of the remaining “critical node” in Iran’s path to a bomb.
A “critical node,” in the analysis of an enterprise like developing a nuclear weapon, is a bottleneck: something that previous paths funnel down to, and something that must be passed through successfully to reach the goal of the enterprise. A critical node cannot be bypassed. It must be successfully negotiated. .… [To read the full article, click here]
