S enior Israeli officials are acknowledging that some enriched uranium may have survived the powerful U.S. strikes on Iran's key nuclear sites last month.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with President Trump to discuss Iran strikes, Gaza conflict and Abraham Accords amid new era of U.S.-Israel strategic partnership

The Pentagon on Wednesday sharpened its assessment of Iran's nuclear program, declaring that Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon following the U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities is "closer to two years" away.

The process of uranium enrichment increases the concentration of U-235, an isotope that can sustain a nuclear chain reaction. Beginning in 2006, the U.N. Security Council called on Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment, but it endorsed the JCPOA on July 20, 2015.

The appraisal that Iran’s nuclear hopes had been set back 1 to 2 years by U.S. and Israeli bombings was the latest in a shifting series of pronouncements.

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker urged Iran to seek peace with the U.S. and Israel as official nationwide remain on high alert for domestic terror activity through sleeper cells.

The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back at least a year after the U.S. military bombed three vital nuclear sites last month.  Chief Pentagon

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran had not agreed to inspections of its nuclear program or to give up enriching uranium.

A scholar of intelligence and strategy explains why battle damage assessments are so challenging – and why the process has become politicized.

The intelligence community has not finalized its battle damage assessment for the effects of the U.S. military's strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities.