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2025-06-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The US did not even try to destroy the nuclear facility in Isfahan
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] Despite Trump's calls to "Fire Natasha!" CNN continues to pile on that Trump's strikes on Iran were futile.
CNN has biased idiots on staff. There are rumbles that they’re getting nervous over there that CNN can no longer afford to keep most of them.
CNN: The US did not drop a bomb on the facility in Isfahan, it is too deep.

The US Air Force did not drop a bunker buster bomb on the nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, because it is located deep enough underground.

This was reported by CNN, citing comments from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Kane.

In fact, the strikes on the nuclear facility in Isfahan were first carried out by Israel, and then the US attacked the facility with Tomahawk cruise missiles. The main damage was inflicted on the buildings on the surface.

The underground complex itself was not actually damaged, since Israel had nothing to destroy it with (except nuclear weapons, and even that is not a fact), and the US did not even try to destroy the underground facility in Isfahan.

So the underground part of the complex has not gone anywhere and can be reactivated after repair work on the surface. At the same time, the IAEA will now not be allowed into the facilities to objectively monitor what is happening. It's about the same with Fordow.

Only the facility in Natanz, which is not located so deep, could potentially have suffered more serious damage from one of the bunker buster bombs.

P.S. Regarding Iran's strike on the US, the published satellite images of the Al Udeid base so far show one hit on the presumably radar system on the base's territory.

Equipment key to producing a nuclear bomb was destroyed in strikes on Isfahan — NYT

[IsraelTimes] Israeli and American airstrikes at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site destroyed equipment key to the production of nuclear weapons, according to The New York Times.

The report says the equipment is used for a process known as metallization that converts enriched uranium gas into metal, one of the final steps to producing the explosive core inside a nuclear bomb.

Analysts cited by the US newspaper say that Tehran intensified its nuclear activities at Isfahan after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, adding that the strikes on the metallization gear have denied the Islamic Republic the ability to assemble an atomic weapon in the near future.

“It’s a bottleneck,” David Albright, a former UN nuclear inspector, tells The New York Times regarding the destruction of the equipment. “They have to rebuild it.”
Posted by badanov 2025-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| ||Comments [67 views ]  Top
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#1 Wow. Who ya gonna believe - the Rooshians or the Slimes?
Posted by Bobby 2025-06-29 07:33||   2025-06-29 07:33|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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