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Trump’s strikes on Iran have failed to destroy its path to a bomb and may drag the U.S. into a quagmire, experts warn

Donald Trump was looking for a simple, if explosive, solution to stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions when he ordered strikes on nuclear facilities across the country.

But as the smoke cleared over the three underground facilities hit by stealth bombers and cruise missiles over the weekend, experts say the result may actually bring an Iranian nuclear bomb closer to reality and raise the risk of greater U.S. involvement in the conflict.

“Technically, it's probably slightly further away, but politically it's much more imminent,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute and a former member of the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), which advises the Secretary of State.

“Iran has been a few months away from a nuclear weapon since about 2007. It's clear that the thing that keeps them a few months away is not their technical capacity; it's their political will. And I think whatever loss in technical capacity they have suffered, it is more than compensated for by an increase in political will,” Lewis told The Independent.

Trump described the U.S. strikes against Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan as a “spectacular military success” in brief remarks from the White House on Saturday night, adding that the sites had been “completely and totally obliterated.”

But Lewis said the

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