Posted on 06/17/2025 1:26:21 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Iran has two known underground nuclear enrichment sites, the one Israel attacked on the first day of its assault at Natanz, and another at Fordo. Both sit south of Tehran in central Iran, but Fordo has long been the Iranian nuclear facility of most concern to international monitors and experts.
Buried deep in a mountain, Fordo is where many analysts believe Iran has concealed clandestine efforts to work toward a nuclear weapons capability. There have been no reported Israeli strikes on the Fordo enrichment facility.
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"Fordo has always been a major concern because of its location and because of its size," Herrera said during a discussion with fellow Iran expert William Alberque, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. We all knew from the beginning that Fordo was a site that aimed to enrich uranium for weapons purposes, because of its location, because of its size, because of its technical capacity. And… that the Iranians have been expanding that site and also expanding the stockpile of enriched uranium in that site, should be a concern for us, because, actually, we don't have a lot of transparency on what's going on there."
Herrera noted that, "in contrast with Natanz which is overground, Fordo is underground — it's a facility which actually has a tunnel structure."
In addition to its well-fortified location and structure, Herrera said Fordo "has always been assumed to be an enrichment plant with military purposes" due to the machinery at the site.
He noted that the Iranian regime had boasted in 2019 of installing advanced "IR-6" centrifuges at Fordo, capable of enriching uranium to higher purity levels much more quickly than most of its older equipment. In early 2023, the IAEA said it had found uranium particles at Fordo enriched to almost 84% purity, which is
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We could follow MTG’s Isolationist “America First” example and wait until Iran has the means to nuke NYC and Chicago, as they have announced some decades ago - Death to America, Death to the Big Satan is not a chant, its a policy.
They are joined by,
Senator Tim Kaine, whose war powers resolution, introduced on June 16, invokes the 1973 War Powers Act to demand congressional authorization for any U.S. military action against Iran. “The American people have no appetite for another endless war,” Kaine declared, echoing sentiments from progressive Democrats like Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Sanders accused Israel of sabotaging U.S.-Iran talks, while Senator Chris Murphy labeled the strikes a “reckless escalation.”- https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/congress-challenges-trump-iran-war-powers
“If China sends in peacekeeping troops, to protect their interests, then what does Israel do?”
That’s a nightmare waiting to happen. I don’t think the Chinese are that crazy.
“But it’s not about Fordow. It’s about regime change and UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.”
Unconditional surrender is optimum outcome….or “the big ask”. Taking out Fordow what you do because you can’t not do it given Israel has acquired air superiority.
The eggs are broken, finish making the omelette.
The AMC-O long since went out of business.
I have read both Fordo and Fordow - Regional differences in spelling?
Right now, it is something that only we can fly. My son went through USAF undergraduate pilot training. When he finished, they didn’t just point him at his aircraft, and say, go fly it. He underwent intensive training in that aircraft, before he was allowed to fly it on his own. The B-2 is a lot more difficult to fly, than his aircraft. It takes many months of intensive training to be able to fly the B-2. Israeli pilots are good, but they are not going to climb into the cockpit of a B-2, and fly it away.
They don’t need to “damage” these sites...they need to be wiped out.
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