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The Strategic Blind Spot: Israel’s Miscalculation Israel’s admission that it lacks the military capacity to destroy the Fordow facility—buried deep under a mountain and fortified against conventional strikes—underscores the technical and strategic limitations of its approach. The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, codenamed Al Ghadir, is a linchpin of Iran’s nuclear program, designed to withstand all but the most advanced bunker-busting munitions, such as the U.S.’s GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). Israel’s reliance on U.S. military power to achieve its objective reveals a critical dependency, but it also exposes a deeper flaw: the assumption that a single strike, or even a series of strikes, could “eliminate” Iran’s nuclear ambitions without triggering a broader conflict. This tunnel vision manifests in several ways: Underestimating Iran’s Resilience and Retaliation: A U.S.-led strike on Fordow would not decapitate Iran’s nuclear program entirely. Iran has dispersed its nuclear in...