Why an Attack on Fordow Could Be a Strategic Gift to Iran

National Security Journal ^ | 6/19/2025 | Andrew Latham

[whyilovetexas111]

Will they attack it? Who knows, this just keeps getting worse. Maybe Trump can stop the madness.

[Clutch Martin]

Like it was said a couple of days ago...

“Ruhollah Khomeini is a jihadist and Donald Trump just wants to buy the world a coke.”

[johniegrad]

The goal needs to be the elimination of the Islamic Republic of Iran with as little damage as possible to the Persian people.

[SunStar]

Tehran would likely respond with “retaliation in layers”: deniable proxy attacks, cyber-attacks, and maritime harassment.

What? They would never do any of these things! It's not like there's any historic evidence of such behavior. Iran has never harassed our ships (even recently), or used any other proxy groups to attack our interests or those of any of its neighbors. They haven't ever built and used IEDs to kill and maim U.S. service members, and they've never even taken any Americans hostage before. Lunacy.

[Brian Griffin]

Iran’s leaders will be retiring.

They have a choice between doing so above or below ground.

[rdcbn1]

These kinds of speculative concern articles are neglect the fact that Iran has been throwing everything it has against Israel since October 7 and it is running out of weapons and proxy warriors.

At this point, short of an undisclosed nuclear, radio logical or bio weapon, what exactly does Iran have left to attack Israel or the US?

If Iran were able to produce a nuclear weapon, Fordow would be one of the only places left to do it so it seems logical that if we wish to prevent a seriously retaliation,putting this site out of commission would the smart thing to do.

[rrrod]

Exactly. Bet the new Iran will be very pro Trump. Bad news for Russia.

[ealgeone]

Activate local sleeper cells. They could do a lot of damage.

[Bratch]

The goal needs to be the elimination of the Islam.ic Republic of Iran with as little damage as possible to the Persian people

Fixed. 😉

[newfreep]

[absalom01]

Trump is the first president in my lifetime who is genuinely anti-war.

If anyone can minimize the damage, it’s him.

[FrankRizzo890]

This sounds like “PLEASE don’t destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities. They need those to threaten Israel”.

[Widget Jr]

I am work right now.

And I will have some fun with this Mr. Latham.

Later.

[Bratch]

[Fledermaus]

So many just don’t get it. They ignore facts.

[linedrive]

Really? What a ridiculous article - nothing new here and they act like this has never been attempted by anyone (much less Iran). Such a joke -

[newfreep]

The “Thank you” was a nice touch...and typical Trump!

[Mi-kha-el]

Cruel and unusual punishment!

[Spacetrucker]

I DONT think we want to destroy the entire country!

[SaxxonWoods]

No need to attack it or it would already have happened.