U.S. B-2 bombers may have delivered catastrophic damage to Iran's nuclear program; however, Iran is not giving up. President Donald Trump wants Iran to commit to zero uranium enrichment; however, the Islamic Republic's leadership is saying it will not.

"We are a committed member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and will continue uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes and to meet our national needs," Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi told the Tehran Times. "As long as we remain within the framework of our NPT obligations, no one can tell us what to do or not to do."

Iran always publicly claimed to be pursuing a "peaceful" nuclear program; however, the 60% enrichment attained prior to the American-Israeli bombing campaign was judged by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as only having a military purpose.

Iran's First Vice President Mohammed Reza Aref similarly stated that Western sanctions would not stop Iran and that it "will no longer allow bargaining over enrichment within our country's territory because we have entered a new space and the enemy … is not facing the Iran of the past."

Iran's decision to ban cooperation with the IAEA sends the message that the Islamic Republic has something to hide. The extensive damage caused by the strikes makes it unlikely that Iran will have a nuclear weapon in the near term; however, its nuclear goal remains on the table.

The Pentagon refuted a preliminary assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that the attack on the Fordo nuclear enrichment facility might not have achieved its mission Wednesday. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Daniel "Razin" Caine declared that the U.S. had a spy who monitored the Fordo site for 15 years before the strikes.

The strikes against Fordo and Natanz rendered them inoperable. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said there was no way that the centrifuges at Fordo were still operable following the U.S. airstrikes. A CIA press release noted that it would take Iran a long time to recover from the attacks, saying, "new intelligence from an historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years."

Mohammed Eslami, the head of Iran's nuclear energy agency, vowed that Iran would restart its enrichment program and that it had made contingency plans in the event Israel and the U.S. were to bomb the sites.

Chinese media reports suggest that China could help Iran rebuild its nuclear enrichment program.

Rumors continue that the Iranians removed uranium from Fordow and other sites before they were bombed by the U.S. and Israel. Iran's retention of highly enriched uranium at undisclosed sites remains a strong possibility as well as the technical know-how to restart the program at other locations.

India's intelligence agency the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) believes that Iran may have removed the uranium from Fordow and other sites before the U.S. Air Force attacked. It worries that Iran could sell the uranium on the black market and that it could be used in radiological bombs better known as "dirty bombs," conventional bombs laced with radioactive material.

The Indians claim that Chinese intelligence and the Russians advised the Iranian leadership to move their uranium before the U.S. could attack.

Major General Mohsen Rezaei stated on Iranian state television on June 19 that Iran had moved its nuclear material and equipment before the Israeli air strikes.

"Israel hit Natanz, Isfahan's nuclear facility, Khandab and Arak but those sites were already evacuated. All the materials they were looking to destroy have been evacuated to a safe place," Rezaei said.

Satellite imagery from two days before the attack and after Trump announced his two-week window showed a line of trucks at the Fordow facility that could have removed nuclear material and equipment.

"Hours before the attack: truck convoys leaving Fordow, in what appears to be an evacuation of equipment," Shahed Qazi, managing director of the China Beige Book, wrote on X on June 22.

Other Iranian government officials claimed likewise. Reuters reported that an Iranian government official told it under the condition of anonymity that 60% of the uranium had been removed from Fordo before the attack.

The Islamic Republic of Iran says the American B-2 stealth bomber airstrikes against its uranium enrichment facilities are not the end of its nuclear program. Its parliament voted Wednesday to end Iran's involvement in the 1960 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that gave the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a role monitoring its nuclear program.

The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated that getting Iran to give up its nuclear program is about getting it to surrender, which he refuses to do.

"For the great country of Iran — a nation with such a history, such a rich culture, and a steadfast national determination — any talk of surrender is nothing but a mockery in the eyes of those who truly know the Iranian people," Khamenei said.

"Then, it's women's rights. Sometimes it's uranium enrichment, and at other times it's the nuclear issue itself. Or it's the matter of missile development. They bring up all kinds of pretexts. But at the core, it all boils down to one thing, which is that they want Iran to surrender."

President Trump said Thursday that he would strike Iran again if he had information that it was once again enriching uranium past a comfortable threshold.

"Iran will now have difficult choices to make on its nuclear program. It's not just the physical damage that resulted from the U.S. strikes. There is also now a psychological barrier that has been crossed: the U.S. has used military force to destroy its nuclear program once already," said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against a Nuclear Iran.

"For a long while, Tehran doubted the military option was on the table. But here, President Trump reset the deterrence equation with Tehran. That will have to be factored into any decision to reconstitute its enrichment capabilities, knowing that President Trump is willing to take more risks than his predecessors in denying Tehran this capacity."