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Israel-Iran live updates: Trump getting comfortable with taking out nuclear facility, source says
ABC News ^ | 6/18/25 | David Brennan, Meredith Deliso, Leah Sarnoff, Jack Moore, and Nadine El-Bawab

Posted on 06/18/2025 3:59:28 PM PDT by DallasBiff

President Donald Trump is getting comfortable with the idea of taking out Iran's nuclear facility, the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, a source familiar with the intelligence told ABC News.

It would not be just one strike on the facility, it would be several, the source said. There is now a movement to get ready for this, the source added.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: cartersfolly; decadesoverdue; iran; trump
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Uh oh, Tuckers head will explode and I am not a neocon, just have the realization that Iran has been a danger to peace for 46 years.
1 posted on 06/18/2025 3:59:28 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

I’d rather the Israelis did it, but if that’s the way it goes I’m good with it.


2 posted on 06/18/2025 4:02:17 PM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli ĝisfunde!)
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t like al this telegraphing the planned B2 attack, along with the Chinese cargo planes that arrived in Iran yesterday.


3 posted on 06/18/2025 4:03:52 PM PDT by montag813
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(I don’t like al this telegraphing the planned B2 attack, along with the Chinese cargo planes that arrived in Iran yesterday.)

I agree 👍 It would be a disaster for Trump and America if the Chicoms missile batteries shot down an B-2 over Iran. It’s too risky. Let the IDF do it sacrificing their own troops no matter what it takes. Trump should keep the B-2’s parked.


4 posted on 06/18/2025 4:08:30 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: DallasBiff
...a source familiar with the intelligence

I got yer source right here.

5 posted on 06/18/2025 4:08:39 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: DallasBiff

I thought Israel already defeated Iran?


6 posted on 06/18/2025 4:12:40 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: montag813
I don’t like al this telegraphing the planned B2 attack, along with the Chinese cargo planes that arrived in Iran yesterday.

I figure it's part of his negotiation tactics, but stealthy attacks should be stealthy, including not telegraphing what you are going to do and when. No doubt China and Russia will want a front row seat for this mission to gather data, and maybe try out some different tactics and technologies.

7 posted on 06/18/2025 4:13:13 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: DallasBiff

I oppose any attempt at “nation building”.
I oppose boots on the ground.

But if we end up dropping bunker busters, I won’t be too upset. Some necessary level of aerial bombardment seems like it might be helpful.


8 posted on 06/18/2025 4:13:55 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: DallasBiff

Trump, meanwhile, now sees the destruction of Fordow as a post-conflict engineering project.

B2s and superior U S. bunker busters won’t be necessary.

Unconditional surrender comes first.


9 posted on 06/18/2025 4:15:18 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Texas Eagle

Yep.

Fake news.


10 posted on 06/18/2025 4:16:07 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: DallasBiff

Yet Axios is saying the exact opposite saying that Trump is not convinced the bunker bomb will work. I was watching Newsmax earlier with Greta Van Susteran and they had a guy on a retired military guy who said that while the Bunker Bomb would absolutely help cause damage to the Fordow facility it would NOT destroy it, even the bunker bomb doesnt go far enough underground to destroy it you would need people to go in after wards to fully destroy it..


11 posted on 06/18/2025 4:16:56 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DallasBiff
LOL! Lies.
The legacy media needs a war so people will be glued to their TV sets. Lord knows with the ratings tanking Bigly since Trump won. They need all the help they can get. Yea War!
12 posted on 06/18/2025 4:17:06 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!)
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To: montag813

Laura was just talking about this cargo plane now from China..what exactly could fit in there, bombs?


13 posted on 06/18/2025 4:18:49 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ClearCase_guy

I would let Israel continue to pound Iran from the air and drive the mullahs out of the country. Then they can either establish a friendly government or put their own boots on the ground and destroy the facility without US involvement. That facility is no threat at all as long as Israel maintains air superiority.


14 posted on 06/18/2025 4:18:49 PM PDT by cbvanb
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To: DallasBiff

I’m not sure its going to be necessary but if it happens I’m OK with it. I’ve grown weary over the years hearing those godless barbarians chant death to America.


15 posted on 06/18/2025 4:19:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DallasBiff

same old story, here we go again


16 posted on 06/18/2025 4:22:07 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: DallasBiff

Well l don’t trust ABC so we’ll see.


17 posted on 06/18/2025 4:38:41 PM PDT by iamgalt
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Suppose three B-2s make the flight, drop the bombs and the facility is not destroyed, being far deeper than realized.

And one bomber is shot down.

What do we get from this? Other than possibly removal of Trump.


18 posted on 06/18/2025 4:41:25 PM PDT by Owen
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To: DallasBiff

I’m going way out on a limb and predicting no attack by the USA. This is a feint.


19 posted on 06/18/2025 4:50:57 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Maybe they picked up the mullahs and their coterie.


20 posted on 06/18/2025 5:13:54 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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