but they have about a dozen.

...based on what, the Trump administration's reports?

Trump's utter lack of credibility, on Iran or anything else, hinders us from having a fact-based discussion of the threat, or even the military actions taken, much less the intelligence assessments.

We can talk all we want about what's real, and then there's reconciling all that with Trump's words and actions which are dog-wagging, epstein-dodging, demented fuckery.

...operational, or had anything to do with making bombs.

Not just that they existed.

But, I get that this is the Trump era, where they can just point to something and claim it's a threat.

Iran is not attempting to make bombs?

Do you think Iran should have nuclear weapons?

...and how Trump tore up the agreement in favor of this gaslighting opportunism where he uses our nation's military defenses like pawns?

I mean you talk about this as if there was some solid intel on their enrichment that we could point to as proof that we need to act as precipitously as Trump has and apparently plans to again.

You're barking up the wrong tree expecting me to flinch just because they have a nuclear program. It's not even the point here. The assessment made when we had responsible people involved used to be that waging war with Iran was counterproductive to the effort to restrain them from weaponizing their program.

Trump decided that acting like a cowboy was smarter, and Iran not only hid their program from us, but it's underground, and likely mobile now that the U.S. has decided to treat Iran as if we're mobilizing to wage war against them.

All that the bullying and bluster from Trump has done is escalate any threat, and increased the likelihood Iran would act precipitously against the U.S. or, more likely, our allies in the region in response.

That threat equation isn't any different from the one that other presidents who preceded Trump have assessed and responded to with efforts short of a destabilizing war.

The question you should be asking is what evidence is there that Trump's rhetoric and actions are doing anything more than deepening Iran's resolve to weaponize it's nuclear program beyond the energy needs that they insist their nuclear program is all about?

More than that, what evidence is there that Iran's nuclear program has been hindered in any significant way by destabilizing airstrikes? It's not as if the risk-assessment of U.S. military strikes is some zero-sum enterprise that would definitely end their nuke ambitions or ability.

agreement if they never let anyone in to do inspections as laid out in the agreement?

...and deliberately put us in this muddle where he can just make shit up as he flails our nation's defenses at Iran, doing little but escalating the situation.

Not a zero-sum enterprise and no assurance that bombing this, or that, is solving anything.

Besides:

“It knocked out their entire potential nuclear capacity.” (July 16)
“It’s been obliterated.” (July 31)
“We obliterated … the future nuclear capability of Iran.” (August 18)
“But I also obliterated Iran’s nuclear hopes, by totally annihilating their enriched uranium.”  September 20)
“Well, they don’t have a nuclear program. It was obliterated.” (October 13)
“… completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability.” (November 11)
“It was called Iran and its nuclear capability, and we obliterated that very quickly and strongly and powerfully.” (November 19)
“We obliterated their nuclear capability.” (December 11)
“We knocked out the Iran nuclear threat, and it was obliterated.” (January 8)
“… obliterated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability.” (January 20)
“… achieving total obliteration of the Iran nuclear potential capability — totally obliterated.” (February 13)

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/nuclear-program-iran-trump-strike

..now we're back to Trump gaslighting nuclear war; literally threatening to ignite the fuse based on bogus intel - this after tearing up the agreement and program where we monitored it, making room for this game where Trump deploys our nation's defenses based on his autocratic will and whim.