Force Protection and Air Defense Gaps

For decades, the U.S. government has warned that Iran is on the brink of re-igniting its nuclear weapons program.

We’ve heard this before — in the early 2000s, during the Obama years, under the first Trump administration, and again under President Biden. The language changes slightly. The urgency is always “imminent.” The proof is always “new.” And yet the story somehow never quite resolves.