I am the Deputy Director for Continuity of Enrichment at the Atomic Energy Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and I would like to thank the United States Air Force and the Israeli Air Force for performing our annual asset verification. Last June they dropped bunker-busters on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan and announced that the Islamic Republic’s key enrichment facilities had been completely and totally obliterated. I opened the shared drive the next morning. The folder still existed. Someone had renamed it “Temporary Entrance Maintenance—Peaceful Purposes.” The material we had moved the week before was listed under “Off-Site Professional Development.” I approved the rename. It auto-saved. The Supreme Leader’s fatwa against nuclear weapons was already in the folder. It has been in the folder since 2003. It has never been closed. The fatwa is excellent documentation. It is oral. It is cited. It is never quite published as a classic ruling that would require us to stop. We present it to the IAEA. We present it to visiting ambassadors. We present it to the people who ask why the centrifuges keep turning. The fatwa covers use. The continuity plan covers everything else. Both documents are correct. One of them is temporary. The temporary one is still running. The Atomic Energy Organization handles the public face: electricity, radiopharmaceuticals, sovereignty, service to humanity. The Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research handles the other face. The IRGC built the tunnels at Fordow because the IRGC builds tunnels. We do not discuss which face is which in the same meeting. We do not need to. The shared drive does not care which letterhead is on the folder. In February they came back. The first wave hit the compound while the Supreme Leader was still above ground. We marked him “Out of Office—Permanent” and kept the continuity call going. The IRGC commander, the Defense Minister, and several others were marked the same way. The call continued. The new strikes were logged as incomplete because the knowledge had already been restructured around the material that survived the previous incomplete strikes. The restructuring was finished before the second round started. The second round is still listed as “In Progress.” It has been in progress for eight months. The Islamic Republic remains in the header. Now the Space Force watches everything. They can read a name badge from orbit. We issued guidance that no one is to wear a name badge. The guidance is followed. Last week a technician arrived in a jacket that still had the old badge sewn into the lining. The satellite noted the stitching. We have opened a ticket. The ticket is currently assigned to Facilities. Facilities was struck in June. Facilities has not responded. The jacket is still in the system. The latest American statement says there isn’t much activity at the remaining sites. Our latest report says the same thing. The two reports match. Matching reports are what we track. Activity is defined as anything that produces a useful image on the next pass. We have reduced useful images. We have not reduced the ability to produce them later. The fatwa is still in the folder. The material is still in the folder. The people who remember how the machines go together are still employed by the Islamic Republic. I am sometimes asked if the program continues. The program continues in the form it has always continued under the Islamic Republic: residual material that was not destroyed, machines that can still be assembled, and a shared drive that survived two rounds of bunker-busters because no one thought to bomb the shared drive. None of these items require a new hall. All of them require that no one stand still long enough for the next satellite to finish spelling the name on the jacket. My pension vests in 2029. The spring assessment is already drafted. It will state that the program has been degraded. It will also state that the degradation is measurable, temporary, and already accounted for in the continuity plan of the Islamic Republic. Both sentences will be true. Both sentences will be filed. The file will be renamed something anodyne. The Americans will announce another obliteration. I will open the drive the next morning. The folder will still be there. The fatwa will still be in it. Someone has to keep the folder.