Photos show severe damage to Iran plant, doubts remain
Commercial satellite images show that the US attack on Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Power Plant, which is deeply embedded and hosts uranium -enricing centrifuges – shows that it was probably destroyed, but probably not approved.
He said the US fell, “they punched with these mops,” he said.
“I would probably expect the facility to be toast.”
However, the confirmation of underground destruction could not be determined, Decker Eveleth, a co -researcher who specializes in Satellite images with CNA company.
Hundreds of centrifuges, the hall, “satellite images based on the level of damage to us very deeply buried for us,” he said.
In order to defend against the attacks by the United States, at the beginning of Iran’s Sunday, Iran buried most of the nuclear program in the deep underground areas, including a mountain in Fordow.
Satellite images show six ground holes that shelter bombardment bombs penetrate the mountain and then seem to be disturbing and dust -covered.
The United States and Israel said they planned to stop Tehran’s nuclear program. However, the fact that it does not completely destroy its facilities and equipment may mean that Iran can reconstruct the arms program in which the US intelligence and UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was shut up in 2003.
A few experts also warned that Iran has probably removed a stock of highly enriched uranium from Fordow before the strike, and that Israel could hide other nuclear components in places unknown to the Nuclear Inspectors of the United States and the UN.
Maxar Technologies, who showed “unusual activity” at Fordow on Thursday and Friday, expressed the satellite images of a long series of vehicles waiting outside the entrance of the facility.
A high -level Iranian source said to Reuters on Sunday, 60 percent of the 60 percent enriched uranium, most of the uranium was moved to a place before the US attack, he said.
“I don’t think you can do it with great confidence, but I don’t think you can do anything other than bringing back nuclear programs for a few years,” Jeffrey Lewis of the Monterey Monterey Institute of Research said. He said. “There are definitely facilities that we don’t know.”
Mark Kelly, the Senate of the Democrat and Senate Intelligence Committee, said that he examined intelligence every day and expressed the same concern.
“My biggest fear right now is that they take this program underground, not underground, but under the radar.” He said. “Where we try to stop it, there is a possibility of accelerating.”
US joint Chief of General Staff General Dan Caine, in a statement to journalists, according to the 2012 congress report, the seven B-2 bombardment plane 14 major ammunition penetrate, 13,600 kilograms of precision guide bombs, he said.
Caine, the first assessments of the sites were extremely serious damage, but any nuclear facility remained intact to speculate to speculate, he said.
Eveleth, Fordow and Caine’s comments Maxar images of the B-2s Fordow’a Fordow’a a first burden of six mats, and then the same points at the same point “double faucet”, he said.
The operation Midnight Hammer also targeted Tehran’s main uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and hit İsfahan, the location of the country’s largest nuclear research center.
