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U.S. Intel Confirms Iran Failed to Move Nuclear Materials Before Trump Strikes, Senator Reveals
Daily Wire ^ | Jun 23, 2025 | Nathan Gay

Posted on 06/23/2025 2:15:13 PM PDT by george76

"In fact, we actually believe they stored more of it in Fordo because they believe Fordo was impenetrable," the senator said.

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) revealed on Monday that U.S. intelligence contradicts claims that Iran moved nuclear materials before President Trump’s weekend airstrikes, which the senator believes “severely damaged, if not completely destroyed” Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities.

Satellite imagery taken prior to the attack, circulating across social media over the weekend, revealed trucks surrounding Fordo allegedly poised to haul away all nuclear material, which the senator rejects.

“[Israel and Iran] are claiming that they moved some material,” Mullin said. “Our intelligence report says they didn’t. In fact, we actually believe they stored more of it in Fordo because they believe Fordo was impenetrable,” the Oklahoma Republican said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The Fordo facility, located 300 feet underneath a mountain, was one of three Iranian nuclear sites targeted by American air strikes on Saturday, along with facilities at Natanz and Isfahan.

“We have the ability to destroy things that people think were undestroyable. And so we think we did a really good job,” Mullin said.

Spencer Faragasso, senior research fellow at the Institute for Science and International Security, echoed Mullin’s sentiment, telling The Washington Post that the satellite images taken prior to the attack appear to feature dump trucks intent on reinforcing Fordo, not evacuating it.

... “If they evacuated any equipment, it had to happen prior to the filling of the tunnels,” Faragasso said, pointing out that using dump trucks to transport uranium and centrifuges could easily damage them, and hazardous chemicals could leak. “It would be a large and complicated undertaking.”

Experts told the Post that the tunnel entrances where the trucks were spotted appear to have been filled with dirt post-attack, either as a result of reinforcing the tunnels in preparation for a strike or from the shock wave caused by the bombing.

Senator Mullin, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the strikes had “severely damaged, if not completely destroyed, their ability to have a nuclear weapon,” but suggested the possibility of continued military action if necessary. “If we find that we didn’t completely destroy Fordo’s nuclear production capabilities, we will be working with our allies to finish the job, or we will finish the job.”

“We have made it very clear, President Trump has made clear for 10 years, we will not allow Iran, the world’s sponsor of terror, to have a nuclear weapon any way whatsoever,” Mullin added.

President Trump declared the strikes had “totally destroyed” Iran’s major enrichment facilities and blasted mainstream media outlets that attempted to contradict this assessment. “It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that’s why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW — ZERO CREDIBILITY!” the president posted .


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Government; Iran; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Qatar; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1st10callersflyfree; areyousure; dumptrucks; fordow; iguessitisover; iran; midnighthammer; noneed2verify; trucks; yesyesallset
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To: george76
Two Weeks??? From Animal House: "Hey (Iran), you f***ed up. You trusted us! Hey, make the best of it!"

"Road Trip!"

21 posted on 06/23/2025 2:42:25 PM PDT by katana
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To: george76

Were they waiting for week two???

Trump fooled them with his phony ultimatum... I’ll think about it two weeks and then hit you tomorrow.


22 posted on 06/23/2025 2:44:33 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Steely Tom

There was some guy back in the 1970s that used to get on stage and eat uranium to prove it was not dangerous in its natural state.

He was trying to fight the leftists who wanted to stop nuclear reactors from being built.

I found a video of him:

https://rumble.com/v1ui9cw-nuclear-radiation-scare-man-eats-radioactive-uranium.html


23 posted on 06/23/2025 2:45:10 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Justa

Yeah, I was thinking MASINT too.


24 posted on 06/23/2025 2:47:02 PM PDT by Salvavida (NS)
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To: zeestephen

“Several days before the attack, a space telescope shows about 20 full size semi-trailers lined up at the entrance gate waiting to pull in.”

Well, I agree that initial reports were 20 trucks, but it was 20 open bed heavy dump trucks.

You’re not proposing that Iran transported enriched uranium in open bed dump trucks are you?

(The theory with the trucks is they were parked in the tunnel to prevent a complete cave in and to lessen a blast wave from the door.)


25 posted on 06/23/2025 2:49:57 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: george76

Moving the equipment and material was high risk. It was in the safest place in Iran, deep underground where only the US could strike it. US intel knew exactly how the Fordow plant was constructed. In fact, it was no huge secret, and inspectors visited the facility several times. No doubt, the US and Israel have blueprints of the place, and we knew exactly how to attack it.


26 posted on 06/23/2025 2:53:13 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: zeestephen

I believe those turned out to be dump trucks.


27 posted on 06/23/2025 3:02:09 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: montag813

False results, that’s what happens when you go marbles deep with the corruption that is modern day Israel.

I vote for Trump twice, and 100% for making America great again, and this is not it. It is bowing down to the warmongering neo-cons. So much for leading America to a better future, we are heading directly into a total C-F of no end. Next years budget will add at least another Trillion with no cuts possible.


28 posted on 06/23/2025 3:05:52 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: montag813

57 are designed to seal the ground above them so that there is no leakage.

If the uranium was there, its still there - only fools would dig down to find out.


29 posted on 06/23/2025 3:06:26 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: zeestephen

just what space telescope would do that???

you got a link for that info??


30 posted on 06/23/2025 3:06:28 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: george76
...U.S. Intel Confirms...
31 posted on 06/23/2025 3:07:36 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: zeestephen

20 full size semi-trailers lined up at the entrance gate waiting to pull in.

Gravel trucks used to block the entrances


32 posted on 06/23/2025 3:07:42 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Glad2bnuts
False results, that’s what happens when you go marbles deep with the corruption that is modern day Israel. I vote for Trump twice, and 100% for making America great again, and this is not it. It is bowing down to the warmongering neo-cons.

You are dead wrong. This was a CAMPAIGN PROMISE from Donald J. Trump.

Not in 2024. Nor 2020. Nor even 2016. He promised it on June 15, 2015, in the foyer of Trump Tower, the very day he announced his run for the presidency:

"I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons."(Source)

33 posted on 06/23/2025 3:14:20 PM PDT by montag813
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To: george76

I’m hopeful. That said, what was on those Chinese planes when they left Teheran w/o turning their transponders on? Asking for an Intelligence Agency...


34 posted on 06/23/2025 3:23:18 PM PDT by Clioman
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To: MeanWestTexan
The truck photos I saw were definitely trailers.

Just my two cents.

I have no insight on why, or which way the cargo went.

35 posted on 06/23/2025 3:23:26 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: george76

Same Intel that told us Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation? Well i’ll be.


36 posted on 06/23/2025 4:18:26 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: ClearCase_guy

The ‘curveball’ intel was shown to be all fake, so the ds faked a plot to exfil wmd out of Iraq to cover their backsides. (there was never any evidence that anything but trucks left Iraq for Syria)

And it thereupon vanished into thin air (from which it came).


37 posted on 06/23/2025 4:26:12 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: george76

It has always been my belief that if they were just “months away” from having a nuke, then they already had enough refined uranium to build nukes. Destroying the underground facilities would just stop them from refining more weapons grade uranium, but they already refined enough to make who knows how many weapons. Plus, I wouldn’t doubt they already had a few old soviet nukes put away for safe keeping.


38 posted on 06/23/2025 4:49:26 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: george76

How can they report this when everything i have read says there no nuclear radiation detected at any of the 3 sites. You cant destroy a nuclear and not have and radiation leak out

Lindsey Graham should be removed from office since he gave numerous warnings to the Iranians. He violated Operational Security(OPSEC)

He is an idiot. He does not care how many of our military personnel gets killed just as long as AIPAC and Boeing keeping paying him millions in bribe money.

Israel is on its way out. As soon as more older elected officials resign, leave office or die off the next generation isnt going to fund them like they have in the past.

Israel is like your loud mouth little brother that is constantly running his mouth because he has a big brother (USA) to protect him. Israel picks the fight and the US backs them up right or wrong. Its disgusting to see it

I am sick of Israel dictating our foreign policy in the Middle East.

The Mossad killed JFK because he wouldnt give them nuclear weapons tech. They stole our nuclear secrets to build their own bombs. Now they wont let anyone in to inspect their nuclear stockpile. If Iran cant have nuclear bombs neither should they.

Search on Youtube for “RITTERS RANTS” to learn from a former UN nuclear inspector. Not Trump who is plainly flat out lying to us. Not the generals who are told what to say. Not any congressional elected fools who have to get permission from AIPAC to say anything on TV because they are bribed with millions of dollars from that PAC.

Trump has lost his way and now puts Isreal and Ukraine before the US. America First is a clever marketing ploy to get the low info citizens on his side and elect him back into office.

Netanyahu is currently facing 3 different corruption trials in Israel. He faked an illness to get court dismissed for that day. The next day he attacks Iran.

I am sickened by the fact i witnessed all kinds of so-called religous folks cheerlead Israel to attack Iran. Does it not say in the 10 commandments that “THY SHALL NOT KILL”

These nuts say its ok to kill muslims. That makes them no different than the muslims killing people.

If muslims are so bad then why doesnt God take them himself? Why do humans have to do all the dirty work.

What does the bible say about harming a child? Now go and look at the dead childrens bodies laying a pool of blood with half their heads blown off by a bullet or bomb fragment.

None of them will because they dont want those images in their heads. COWARDS!!! You cant hit a reset buttin and they all come back to life like video game

You religous folks own that but you dont see it for what it is because everyone of you are cowards of the highest levels.

I have seen better morals and values from drunks in bars. If i want to get stabbed in the back all need to do is go to church and wait.

They are the biggest group of idiots in the US. How many times have you let Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and 2 and then Trump sucker you in with their lies???

America is circling the toiletbowl and soon we will be gone. Many of you will keep drinking the koolaid till a muslim or a Chinese soldier shoots your sorry ass between your eyes.

You can hate me for speaking the truth. Dont send me any private replys because i will not reading them. I dont value anything you have to say.


39 posted on 06/23/2025 5:23:04 PM PDT by MRBIGMUTTS (IF YOU ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS DONE THEN YOU WILL ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU ALWAYS GOT)
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To: MRBIGMUTTS

You mad bro?
Yeah, you mad.
Lol.


40 posted on 06/23/2025 5:42:24 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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