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US military completed a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran, ordered by Trump, using fighter aircraft, drones and warships.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because with inspectors locked out of Fordow and Natanz, the world no longer knows how much enriched uranium Iran actually has, shrinking the warning time before a possible weapon and raising the odds of a preemptive Israeli or US strike based on guesswork.
Part of the monitored dynamic Iran Nuclear Program · VUCA INDEX 62/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 3JUL 18
al-monitor.com — US military says it completed latest strikes on Iran, marking 7th consecutive ni
"The U.S. military said late on Thursday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran that were carried out at President Donald Trump's direction and marked a seventh consecutive night of American attacks."
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from al-monitor.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 18.
Extracted JUL 18; approved JUL 18 at 0.60.
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