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Analysis

Phase One Is Done

Vance declared phase one of the Iran war done on September 15. Phase one was to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, conventional military and power projection. CSIS documented peak nuclear facility construction the same week. The mountain does not appear to have received the declaration.