Posted on 06/17/2025 3:31:49 PM PDT by Kazan
Israel’s national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, said Tuesday that Israel will not stop fighting the war before it has damaged Iran’s Fordow (or Fordo) nuclear facility, which is buried deep within a mountain.
The Times of Israel reported:
Israel’s operation against Iran “will not end without damaging the Fordo nuclear facility,” promises National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi in an interview with Channel 12.
The site, 90 meters (295 feet) underground, houses thousands of centrifuges to enrich uranium. Israel’s conventional munitions can’t reach that deep, and it would take the US joining the fight to knock it out from the air.
“I don’t know if the US will join,” says Hanegbi, adding that Israel is talking to the US continuously, but is not trying to convince them.
Conventional wisdom holds that Israel cannot, by itself, destroy Fordow, because doing so would require bunker-busting bombs that can penetrate and explode at depth. Only the U.S. has them — and Israel lacks strategic bombers that would be necessary to carry such bombs to their targets.
However, both Israel and the U.S. might prefer that the Americans stay out of the war — at least directly — and Israel has other means.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
The IDF on Tuesday said that it has a ready plan for striking Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility the moment that the political echelon gives the order.
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Since the IDF lacks a mega 30,000 bunker buster bomb, which the US possesses, Israel has been trying to convince Washington to take out the facility.
However, despite lacking that bomb, the air force has other techniques for damaging or causing cave-ins at Fordow, such as repeatedly dropping 5,000-pound or 2,000-pound bombs over and over again in the same spots.
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All the more reason for us not to get directly involved.
Why need the US be involved at all. Israel has intimated having nuclear weapons of its own for decades. Why not use one. Surely superior to a bunker buster. Even a zero fallout airburst.
Iran has had 5 days of warning to remove material from Fordow site.
I’ve said this elsewhere: with the equipment buried so deep you don’t need to destroy it. You only need to destroy the access points and then they’re effectively entombed.
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With no need for US involvement, the name-calling can stop and we can all be friends again.
We will see. Without a GBU-57 there’s only so much they can do. And only we have them or the ability to deliver one on Fordow.
Now they know where they were moved to.
If they remove it, the reason for keeping it so far underground is negated and it becomes vulnerable. Easier to destroy it. IF, of course the Israelis knew where it went.
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Wait, don't tell me.
They moved it all to... Russia.
Let Israel bomb it repeatedly.
Then make damage assessment.
Hopefully it’s enough without US involvement.
I think we join in and use what needs to be used. The world is literally depending upon this being done and done effectively.
No half assing please.
As weLL they shouLd.
We’ve aLL been screwing around on doing this for too many years.
[I couLda had some fun with just one paLLet of Ca$h....]
Just a wild guess but I think all of this talk by Israel and Trump is a ruse to buy time so the Israeli plan can get in place to finish off these sites. Get Iran thinking about bunker busting strikes from above when they might get struck from secret ground forces or some other plan.
Otherwise there is no reason to advertise what targets they will hit or not hit.
ApparentLy the U is in some gaseous form.
Get some large pLastic bags and hope for the best.....
Maybe a special ops team to penetrate & detonate high explosives?
The IDF and Mossad have been so creative with their weapons and tactics.
I have a very good hunch all is under control.
Starting to sound like a bait and switch, Bibi.
Iran will hit us first, then Trump will show no mercy.
China is ready to take Taiwan. Can our military defeat China’s military?
“but is not trying to convince them.”
lol Oh no!
AIPAC keeps busy with the shilling and pilpul
“ We will see. Without a GBU-57 there’s only so much they can do.”
Israel has a plan to take out Forlow. Had it for years. The US moving refuelers to Europe is a feint.
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