Iran's nuclear project is 'unchanged', says senior ex-Israeli intelligence officer

Iran's nuclear project is 'unchanged', says senior ex-Israeli intelligence officer Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 05/18/2026 - 11:32 Tamir Hayman, who served during first two months of current war, said that Israel had failed to meet both its political and military aims Iranian army soldiers stand in front of a picture of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojataba Khamenei in Tehran on 29 April 2026 (AFP) Off A former senior Israeli intelligence officer, who served during the current war on Iran , has said that the Iranian nuclear project remains “essentially unchanged” despite Israeli and US attacks.  Tamir Hayman, the executive director of Israel's Institute for National Security Studies, served in a senior position in Israeli military intelligence over the first two months of the US-Israeli war on Iran.  On Sunday, he disclosed details about Israel’s operations during the war in a policy paper published by the institute, as first reported by Haaretz.  He said that despite having made some tactical achievements, the two main targets of the war: the Islamic Republic and its nuclear project, had not changed.  Hayman said that Israel’s 12-day war on Iran in June 2025 had “failed to establish a permanent solution, and Iran demonstrated a rapid and dangerous recovery capability”.  During that war, the US struck Iranian soil for the first time, damaging three Iranian nuclear sites.  But Hayman said Tehran had been recovering, citing “the rehabilitation of the Fordow site and the accelerated construction of 'Pickaxe Mountain' (allegedly) immune to air strikes". The latter reference was to an alleged site near the Natanz nuclear facility deep unde...

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