Can AI help Russia Decisively Improve its Information War Against the West?

The idea is the prime minister writes them out four times because there is one letter that goes in the safe of each submarine as it goes on patrol."

The Iranians might decide that the only way to prevent future military attacks on its territory is not only to reconstitute the programme, but to push toward weaponisation,” said Darya Dolzikova, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK think tank.

What we really stress in the findings is the fact that it’s a certain make or model today, but if that gets engineered out [with technological advances to counter theft], or the demand shifts, it will be another tomorrow.”

The fundamental reality remains that military action alone can only roll back the programme by degrees, not eliminate it fully.

The US has directly entered the war with military power only it could have provided. If the Iranians choose a broader military response against US forces, there are targets across the Middle East, but all would risk widening the conflict at a time of extreme vulnerability for the Iranian regime.

Iran had vowed to retaliate harshly against US interests in the Middle East if it attacked Iranian nuclear sites. Now that the strikes have come, Tehran faces a stark dilemma: retaliate and risk a wider war or pause to consolidate at home.