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Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

The U.S. mil­i­tary’s strike on three sites in Iran raised ur­gent ques­tions about what re­mains of Tehran’s nu­clear pro­gram and how its weak­ened mil­i­tary might re­spond.

The de­ci­sion to di­rect­ly in­volve the U.S. comes af­ter more than a week of strikes by Is­rael on Iran that have moved to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly erad­i­cate the coun­try’s air de­fens­es and of­fen­sive mis­sile ca­pa­bil­i­ties, while dam­ag­ing its nu­clear en­rich­ment fa­cil­i­ties.