Your comment manages to combine confidence with a remarkable misunderstanding of both the physics and the timeline - and getting both wrong. First - the science. The hard work in uranium enrichment isn’t the jump from 60% to ~90% weapons-grade. The bulk of the separative work happens earlier - going from natural uranium to 3–5%, then to 20%, then to 60%. By the time material reaches 60%, most of the technical effort has already been done. That is precisely why proliferation experts get alarmed at 20% and especially 60% enrichment. Second - the history. Iran had already enriched uranium to 20% before the 2015 JCPOA. That’s exactly why the deal forced enrichment down to 3.67%, capped stockpiles, and removed centrifuges under IAEA monitoring. The technology, infrastructure and expertise already existed. Third - Stuxnet. Yes, the cyber attack damaged centrifuges around 2010 by destabilising their rotation. It disrupted the programme temporarily. It clearly didn’t eliminate it - Iran continued enriching for the next decade and eventually reached 60%. And finally - blaming Trump for the physics is lazy analysis. You can argue the US leaving the JCPOA accelerated things. Fine. But pretending Iran suddenly acquired enrichment capability in 2018 is simply wrong. The centrifuges, the expertise, and the enrichment ladder were already there.
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