1、2025/6/23 11:56The US attacks Iran:Three questions for the day afterhttps:/www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-attacks-iran-three-questions-for-the-day-after/1/5President Donald Trumps momentous decision to strike key Iranian nuclearfacilities on Saturday leaves Washington and the world in a state of
2、suspense.Following a spectacularly successful Israeli military operation against Iran overthe past week,the U.S.attack compounds the crushing reversals to Iransregional power projection over the past year.But the American intervention alsoamplifies the fluidity about how this crisis may evolve,and w
3、hat it means for Tehran,Washington,and the world.On the day after,the unfolding situation is beset withuncertainty.Consider these three unanswered questions.1.Did the US finish the job?The U.S.strike was intended to deliver the death blow to Irans nuclear ambitions bydisabling installations that the
4、 Israeli Air Force did not have the capabilities to eliminateon its own.This included the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant,a heavily fortifiedinstallation built into the side of a mountain near the Iranian city of Qom,and two othersites.Without,Israels military campaign might only setback Tehrans nuclea