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 .
Deep State.
In.
I hope you get the help you obviously are in serious need of.
One report had it that the removal of the nuclear material was a possibility because NO radiation was detected after our mass bombing was accomplished. I will reserve my opinion until more reports from various sources have been submitted. It would be helpful if the international nuclear inspectors were allowed a visit at the bomb sites where storage has been reported. I imagine the small Middle East countries will ask for that as they don’t want their luxury businesses hurt by drifting radioactive fallout.
Senator Mullin, who represents the state with the giant Cushing Oil Storage Terminal will be especially attentive to the true state of Iran’s post bombing behavior. Aside from continued attacks on Israel this could include bombing the oil production, storing and shipping facilities of others, and possibly closing the Hormuz sea route which can affect around 20% of world oil shipping.
Give the uncanny ability to watch from space, we should be able to determine what traffic went through Fordow and other places. Also, there’s always someone willing (reluctantly, perhaps) to provide information. Eyes from sky, ears to the ground.
What is espionage for, anyway?
Then you’ve seen photos no one else has seen.
“Does it not say in the 10 commandments that “THY SHALL NOT KILL””
No, it does not. At least not in how modern English uses the word “kill”.
The actual Hebrew word translates to “murder.”
(A couple of hundred years ago “kill” in English was limited to murder, which is why the King James translation says that.)
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