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2025-06-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Inside Iran's Fordow nuclear site – a fortress in the mountains Israel likely needs the US and ‘bunker buster' bombs to topple

[World News via NYP] There’s just one Iranian nuclear facility left on Israel’s hit list — and it may be up to the US to take it out. Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is a fortress built deep within the mountains — up to 300 feet underground.

That’s out of reach of Israel’s known munitions. Only America’s 15-ton bunker-buster bomb, GBU-57A/B Massive Ordinance Penetrator, is thought to be capable of touching it.

While Israel has surprised Western intelligence in the past with the scope of their arms and strategies, nothing the Jewish state has shown off so far suggests it has the means to penetrate Fordow’s defenses, said Nicholas Carl, a research manager at the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-17 05:09|| || Front Page|| ||Comments [188 views ] Top

#1 Another course would be to seal it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-06-17 07:21|| 2025-06-17 07:21|| Front Page || Comments Top

#2 If IRAN wasn't trying to hide nuke weapon development. Then why the buried, deep in a mountain lab, that even the International Atomic Energy Agency has to request access MONTHS in advance, to inspect?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-06-17 07:21|| 2025-06-17 07:21|| Front Page || Comments Top

#3 It's all nonsense anyways. IAF should wipe out Iran's oil infrastructure - and then all this sh*t won't matter.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-17 07:27|| 2025-06-17 07:27|| Front Page || Comments Top

#4 Them folks down in Fordow better be pray'n real hard.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-17 08:57|| 2025-06-17 08:57|| Front Page || Comments Top

#5 P2K at #1 has it. They can only survive so long in a tomb

Posted by Frank G 2025-06-17 09:03|| 2025-06-17 09:03|| Front Page || Comments Top

#6 Yep, sealing it is an option. Just gotta keep the rats from digging out.

Another option is give Israel the bombs to do destroy it.

Another-nother option is blowing up the only two oil and gasoline connections and watch Iran starve and run out of fuel.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-06-17 09:09|| 2025-06-17 09:09|| Front Page || Comments Top

#7 Just seal it, attack anybody going in or out.

Posted by Rambler 2025-06-17 09:13|| 2025-06-17 09:13|| Front Page || Comments Top

#8 Sealing only works until the next Dem president. Iran will dig it out and the world has the same problem again. Regime change with negotiated US access to Fordow May be easiest.

Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2025-06-17 11:05|| 2025-06-17 11:05|| Front Page || Comments Top

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