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Gen. Wesley Clark: I'd strongly encourage the U.S. not to simply bomb Iran's Fordo nuclear facility
- On June 17, 2025, Israel launched airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, targeting sites including Natanz, but no strikes were reported on the Fordo underground plant.
- These strikes followed Iran’s increased uranium enrichment and reduced cooperation with international inspectors after the U.S. withdrew from the nuclear deal years earlier.
- Fordo, located nearly 300 feet underground near Qom and fortified with hard concrete, houses advanced centrifuges enriching uranium close to weapons grade, raising major proliferation concerns.
- Israel’s national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi stated the operation will not end without a strike on Fordo and denied that the U.S. was asked to join in the attacks.
- The campaign aims to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons potential, but questions remain about U.S. direct involvement and the risk of conflict escalation.
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Iran's secretive nuclear site and the bomb that could destroy it
If the U.S. decides to support Israel more directly in its attack on Iran, one option would be to provide the “bunker buster” bombs believed necessary to significantly damage the Fordo nuclear fuel enrichment plant built deep into a mountain.
In Fordo, Iran is enriching almost weapons-capable uranium. A 3D flight shows how protected the mine is. What would be needed to destroy it – with or without bombs.
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN If Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility is damaged or destroyed in a US attack, there would likely be limited radiation leakage in the immediate area, but it would not have the same catastrophic consequences as bombing a nuclear reactor, experts told CNN. Kelsey Davenport, director of Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, said that if the bombs were to penetrate Fordow, there would likely be “limited radiati…
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einnews.comFordo — the heart of Iran's nuclear program
Israel has said its assault on Iran aims to destroy Tehran's nuclear program. Sites in Natanz, Isfahan and elsewhere have been heavily damaged. Now the bunker at Fordo is in the crosshairs.
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