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Huffington Post // Politics

BBC Expert Warns Trump's Air Strikes May Have 'Accelerated' Iran's Nuclear Weapons Programme

Monday 23rd June 2025, 9:18AM


Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites.Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran could may have “accelerated” the country’s programme to build a nuclear bomb, according to a BBC expert.Frank Gardner, the corporation’s security correspondent, said the Tehran regime may even have been able to “spirit out” the material needed before the US air strikes even took place.Trump has insisted that the American attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites were “a spectacular military success”.He said: “Iran’s key nuclear facilities and been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.”On Radio 5Live this morning, Gardner said the world was at “a really scary inflection point” as a result of the US air strikes.“The US has done this single, dramatic raid that it believes has done total damage to Iran’s nuclear programme, but the big question is ’has it reall

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