Ā Ā Ā Ā Following Trumpās comment, other less grand assessments of the US strikes have been offered, ranging from āenormous damageā and āsevere damageā to the Ayatollah Ali Khomeiniās insistence that ānothing at allā was seriously damaged. Accompanying these assessments of what bombing accomplished are wide-ranging predictions of how badly Iranās nuclear program has been set back: a few months, several months, several years. All these assessments and predictions obscure a simple fact: Iran still has the human and technical resources to produce a nuclear weapon at some point in the future, and now with greater incentive than ever to do so.