Iran then developed training programs for nuclear scientists in numerous universities. The goal was not to create a small elite of a few hundred specialists, but to train battalions of engineers. Today, there are tens of thousands of them.
Iran intends to discover how to achieve nuclear fusion, whereas Westerners are content with fission. Fission is the splitting of an atom; while fusion is the joining of atoms, which releases an immeasurable amount of energy. Fission is used for our power plants, while, for the moment, fusion is only used for thermonuclear bombs. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s plan is to use it to generate electricity and share it with developing countries.
This surprise attack can be interpreted in two ways: either President Trump saved Israel from massive destruction by Fatah-1 hypersonic missiles, or, conversely, he saved Iran from an Israeli nuclear bombardment. The fact that the Pentagon did not attack the Fatah-1 launchers, which are less well protected than civilian nuclear power plants, suggests the latter interpretation.
In any case, by destroying Iran’s nuclear research program, President Trump has deprived Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the argument he has been using for twenty years to wage his “war on seven fronts.”
We must remember that President Donald Trump, during his first term, ordered the assassination of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (October 27, 2019), followed by that of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani (January 3, 2020). In his mind, this was about striking the main Sunni military leader and the main Shiite military leader in order to bring their two groups into line. Which worked.
It is therefore possible that bad news awaits an Israeli leader in the coming months. The arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu by the Israeli justice system, for example.
