NYT: Israel’s Military Response ‘Inevitable’ as Iran Restores Nuke Facilities, Ramps up Missile Production
“[A]nother outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is only a matter of time.”
Nearly five months after joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel could be forced to consider hitting Tehran’s nuclear weapons program and ballistic missiles factories, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
With the Mullah regime trying to restore its nuclear facilities and replenish its missile arsenal, the newspaper warned that “another outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is only a matter of time,” citing government officials and experts.
Following the 12-Day War in June 2025, which saw the joint U.S. and Israeli airstrikes dismantling the regime’s nuclear weapons program, “Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to make 11 nuclear weapons, is either buried under rubble, as Iran claims, or has been spirited away to a safe place, as Israeli officials believe,” the NYT reported.
According to the report, Iranian officials claimed that their missile factories were up and running again — “working 24 hours a day.” The Mullahs “hope to fire 2,000 at once to overwhelm Israeli defenses, not 500 over 12 days” as they did five months ago, one regime official boasted.
During the 12-Day War, which began on June 13, 2025, Israel succeeded in eliminating key Iranian scientists who ran the rogue nuclear weapons program. The US Air Force’s B-2 Spirit stealth bombers struck Iran’s underground Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan nuclear facilities with 30,000-pound bunker busters. At the onset of the war, the Israeli Air Force effectively destroyed Iran’s Russian-supplied air defense systems. Iran’s missile manufacturing and launching capabilities were severely cripples as part of the operation.
Reporting on the Iranian attempts to restore its nuclear weapons and long-range missile program, the NYT noted:
Iran also appears to be continuing to work on a new enrichment site known as Pickaxe Mountain. It has refused to give international inspectors access to that site or any other suspected nuclear sites other than those already declared.
The result is a dangerous stalemate — with no negotiations, no certainty over Iran’s stockpile, no independent oversight. And many in the Gulf believe that makes another Israeli attack on Iran almost inevitable, given Israeli officials’ long-held view that Iran’s nuclear program is an existential threat.
Iran is likely to respond to any Israeli attack in a far less restrained way than it did in June, said Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group. Iranian officials have told him that missile factories are working 24 hours a day, he said, and if there is another war, “they hope to fire 2,000 at once to overwhelm Israeli defenses, not 500 over 12 days” as they did in June.
There is no evidence that a new attack is imminent. But “Israel feels the job is unfinished and sees no reason not to resume the conflict, so Iran is doubling down preparedness for the next round,” he said.
Iran is more isolated from the West than it has been in decades. Arab regional powers like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have enhanced their influence over Washington and Mr. Trump, partly through economic ties and partly through their willingness to work with the United States to try to find a lasting settlement to the Gaza war. The new president of Syria is headed to the White House on Monday to seek American support. Syria had been a strategic ally of Iran’s under the Assad government that collapsed last year.
While Iran lost Syria as a forward base of operation last December after the fall of the Assad regime, it is desperately trying to resurrect Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The Iran-sponsored terrorist militia has renewed its efforts to rebuild its terrorist infrastructure (fortified bases, terror tunnels, and rocket launchers) on Israel’s border that was largely destroyed in the IDF’s ground operation in southern Lebanon between October 1 and November 27, 2024.
The U.S.-brokered agreement, which obliges the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah by the end of this year, has not been fulfilled. Instead of disarming, Hezbollah is re-militarizing southern Lebanon. In recent weeks, the Israeli military has responded with limited strikes targeting Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure close to the border.
The news comes as Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar blasted Tehran for plotting to assassinate the country’s ambassador to Mexico and other senior diplomats. “It was recently reported that Iran attempted to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in Mexico. This is not the only place they tried to do this,” he said Tuesday. The Israeli minister warned that “Iran is constantly trying to attack Israeli embassies, Israeli ambassadors, and Israeli diplomats.”
“We will not be deterred. On the contrary – we will continue to expand Israel’s ties around the world,” he added defiantly.
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I thought Iran was running out of water and literally sinking
Yes I read that. They;re talking about abandoning Tehran and the whole country croaking and yet all those low IQ morons can do is focus on Israel. Stupid. They could ask Israel for help and Israel would help but noooooo,
They’ve long been trying for the Apocalypse to bring the 12th Imam out of some well.
He’s not there anymore because the well ran dry.
You’d literally think they’d have better things to do. They are talking about moving 10 million people out of Tehran to…. where? No other part of Iran is any better.
Maybe they will all move to “Palestine”.
Or perhaps, a blaze of glory nuclear war that culls the population down to a sustainable level is just what the doctor ordered. If Israel is eradicated, and Iran is reduced by 80% at the same time, the true believers will take that as a big win. Then the 12th Imam will emerge from Hyperspace, crawl out of a dry well, and lead his people to Global Armageddon.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sanammahoozi/2025/11/07/irans-drought-is-worsening-but-its-rain-clouds-arent-being-stolen/
The interesting thing about all this lies elsewhere: Iran is running out of water because of gross mismanagement of water usage. The matter has gotten so bad that the aquifers have been so drained that the land is sinking at relatively rapid rates, and the damage is irreversible. The question is how fast will Iran run of water so it will no longer be a threat?
If I was Israel I would know where to bomb and I’d do it now to hasten their complete and total collapse. Call it an act of God with an assist to Israel.
And they are running out of power because they got it from hydro power.
They are. They can build centrifuges for nuclear bombs, but not nuclear power plants for electricity.
The word is they will need to abandon Tehran in as little as 3 months. Or I should say, move 10 million people ‘somewhere’ in just 3 months!!!!! Move them where? No other city in Iran is any better shape than Tehran.
They will need to bring in China to rapidly build them massive nuclear powered desalination plants on the Caspian Sea, drill a tunnel to pipe the water through the mountains to Tehran, and charge them 100% interest for the next 100 years on the project. They can save Tehran at the cost of being debt slaves to the CCP forever.
Tehran is sinking because the water in the aquifers has been used up. In the process of sinking, all the underground piping and sewers are cracking.
“The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was a 2015 agreement between Iran and world powers (the P5+1, including the U.S., China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., plus the EU) to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions”
But Obama told us the JCPOA was working – Only working to hide and facilitate IRAN’s nuclear program, along with the pallets of cash!
Only a treasonous president would partake in facilitating Iran’s nuclear program.
only a delusional idiot would believe the JCPOA was working to hinder Iran’s nuclear program.
“[A]nother outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is only a matter of time.”
Well, DUH. When one side is intent on re-arming so they can try once again to destroy the other side, war is definitely “inevitable.” And that’s regardless of whether the defensive side even fights back.
Also DUH because Iran (and plenty of other Muslims – who have gone quiet for now) explicitly says that destroying Israel is their primary goal in existence. Evidently the NYT is stunned to learn the old adage “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.”