IIWIC: On the Iran military action
(Author's note: I'm feeling inspired to write more fiction, as-if the US had a semi-competent leader at present.) My fellow Americans, I'm here today to address some of the questions and concerns about the recent US military action in Iran, in which we participated in an effort to degrade the ability for the Iranian regime to develop and acquire nuclear weapons. I will try to answer some of the questions about this operation, so that the American people can be more informed. Initially, let me touch on the evaluation of success of the operation. From a military perspective, the operation ran successfully: the systems performed well, the targets were hit as intended, and no US military personnel were harmed. From an efficacy perspective, the global intelligence community is still evaluating, and this will take time. At this point, we believe we have contributed to delaying Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon, but we do not know to what extent. I will also say, for refe...