Important points following Trump’s bombing nuclear facilities in Iran

•Saudi Arabia and most of the Persian Gulf countries are archrivals of Iran, but publicly, these nations have not celebrated Trump’s decision. This is because the attack was coordinated with Israel and not because a Sunni state was under threat; they also fear that the Ayatollahs might respond by bombing U.S. military installations in those countries, killing some of their citizens and impacting their image as stable nations; additionally, the 92 million people living in Iran could become refugees at their borders; they also fear that Trump's attack could cause the Ayatollah regime to collapse and their massive arsenal to fall into the hands of hundreds of disorganized Islamist cells; and finally, for the past decade, the Sunni Arab nations have agreed that the common strategy to confront the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran is diplomacy.

•Satellite images show that a few days before Trump’s bombing, Iran moved a significant amount of equipment out of its underground nuclear facilities, suggesting that part of the Iranian uranium enrichment program may still be intact.

•It is true that reports from Western intelligence services and the International Atomic Energy Agency denied that Iran was starting to build nuclear weapons, but it is also true that Iran went from enriching uranium at 3% a few years ago to 60% currently, and was only a few months away from reaching the 90% required for making nuclear weapons. It is also true that the Iranian government stopped cooperating with international agencies regarding its nuclear program, and only countries with nuclear weapons have uranium enrichment levels comparable to what Iran has today.

•Neither China nor Russia are interested in militarily defending Iran, as both oppose its nuclear program aimed at eventually obtaining nuclear weapons, and obviously do not want to risk starting a third world war for a country that is not critically important to their national interests.