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Trump says nothing was taken out of Iran nuclear facility
Times of Israel ^ | June 26, 2025 | Reuters and Jacob Magid

Posted on 06/26/2025 9:43:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

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US President Donald Trump says nothing was moved from an Iranian nuclear facility, echoing his defense secretary who earlier today said he is unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved its uranium to shield it from US strikes over the weekend.

“The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!” Trump, without providing evidence, writes on his social media platform.


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1 posted on 06/26/2025 9:43:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

First of all...He doesn’t have to give us proof...because it’s more likely than not that “our” people are embedded all over the place.


2 posted on 06/26/2025 9:50:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

>> Trump, without providing evidence

But media bullshit from unnamed sources is rock-solid-A-Okay truth!


3 posted on 06/26/2025 9:54:43 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Red Badger

“”Trump, without providing evidence, writes on his social media platform.””

Yeah, more BS insinuations, doubting Trump’s honesty, from the anti-Trump morons. The evidence is.... no such “movement” was picked up by satellite OR detected by embedded intelligence agents. You can bet if any uranium was moved, the IDF would have already taken care of it, much to the chagrin of these pro-Iran propagandists.


4 posted on 06/26/2025 9:55:46 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Red Badger

The last time I moved it took weeks to pack up, rent a truck and a day to load. I can not imagine how long it would take to move the contents from a bunker hundreds of feet underground, just waiting for the elevators would take forever.

Add to the fact that nobody expected President Trump sending planes from Missouri to take out the site, I am pretty sure our spy satellites would have notice if there was an attempt to move anything.

This is mis-information from our lying “news outlets”.


5 posted on 06/26/2025 9:58:18 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: Nervous Tick

About right for Rooters.
They hold up a “low confidence” assessment as gospel.


6 posted on 06/26/2025 10:03:45 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Red Badger

My 48 hour rule has been revised to believing nothing I hear on the news for 48 hours, to only bother catching up on the news every 48 hours. At this point unless Trump puts out a Truth on the subject everything is suspect.


7 posted on 06/26/2025 10:03:48 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Nervous Tick

The MSM has put out countless salacious and defamatory stories about PDJT “without providing evidence.”


8 posted on 06/26/2025 10:21:17 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger

The intent of the sortie was not to take out the enriched HEU inside but to destroy the mechanism through the reactors so they couldn’t be used again without a substantial, costly and dangerous repair and reclaiming of what was left inside prior to the attack.

When the reactors were hammered they also created a risk of corium and contamination release that will make replacing the reactor a dangerous and costly effort. This can be monitored with satellites, drones and imbedded so any effort to repair will be observed and can be handled. We didn’t destroy very much HEU, we just stopped their ability to take it to weapons grade at those location.

Trump made it a point to tell them that they were not going to get a nuclear weapon. Iran was aware we had weapons that could get into their mountains as they saw them in Iraq. They had 60 days and could have taken some of the higher enriched out (60% and it takes 80% to make a basic weapon) but they have no way to further enrich it to weapons grade as they don’t appear to have any major reactors left.

wy69


9 posted on 06/26/2025 10:48:55 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: whitney69

Zackly...............


10 posted on 06/26/2025 10:52:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Some posts from Amir Tsarfati (oldest last):

Amir Tsarfati
3 hours ago
Trump clarifies in light of rumors: Nothing was removed from the site at Fordow before our attacks

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the shafts.....


Amir Tsarfati
1 day ago
Israeli security source to Saudi Al-Hadath channel:
We know where Iran moved the enriched uranium, most of it is buried under the rubble. Israel did not attack the enriched uranium because it could have caused an environmental-nuclear disaster

Amir Tsarfati
3 days ago
👆 A more detailed photo of Fordow “after”

BTW, see the tunnel entrances sealed with dirt? That’s what those trucks did a few days ago, to foil a commando operation.


Amir Tsarfati
4 days ago
Can enriched Uranium assets be moved by trucks?

No, if you are trying to hide it. Trucks are a very easy thing to monitor…


Amir Tsarfati
4 days ago
A senior Iranian official told Reuters:

Most of the highly enriched uranium at Fordow was moved to an unknown location before the US attack.
The number of staff at the Ford site has been reduced to a minimum.
_______________________


11 posted on 06/26/2025 11:37:44 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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I’m sure everyone knows every inch of Iran has been watched by DOD satellite for more than 20 years, 24/7, down to the molecule. Iran and many, many other places.

The even admitted it in this mornings Hegseth and Caine hot wash up at 0800 on the 26th for 45 minutes. They stated they were watching them for ~15 years digging and building the nuke sites. They were analyzing the materials pulled out of the ground (geology and mineralogy) from DOD birds.

That’s only the declassified info... there’s a lot more.


12 posted on 06/26/2025 12:02:36 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: Sacajaweau

Yes and satellites can spot a pack of smokes on the ground if it moves it’s noted.


13 posted on 06/26/2025 12:06:25 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

And the massive plumes of radioactive dust kicked up from these 12 bunker-busting bombs settled where?


14 posted on 06/26/2025 12:06:28 PM PDT by batazoid (Natural born citizen)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

And it’s heavy. You’d need cranes and huge trucks. Not the ones seen there.


15 posted on 06/26/2025 12:09:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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It should be obvious that we had the ability to monitor what was going on at the site and the President took action before Iran could move anything out of the facility.

That explains why the strikes occurred so quickly.

16 posted on 06/26/2025 12:09:54 PM PDT by Kazan
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400 feet under tons of rock.................


17 posted on 06/26/2025 12:10:33 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: batazoid

Buried under rubble.


18 posted on 06/26/2025 12:11:40 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: CIB-173RDABN
I can not imagine how long it would take to move the contents from a bunker hundreds of feet underground

I understand but there is also the effect on one's speed stemming from the presence of religious purity officers having powers to summarily declare you an infidel and perform/order immediate execution.

19 posted on 06/26/2025 12:29:54 PM PDT by fso301
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To: whitney69

It’s not going to be easy to recruit scientists to work on this, going forward. If they have brains, they’ll want to work on something else. If they don’t have brains, will their stuff work?


20 posted on 06/26/2025 2:21:07 PM PDT by Tymesup
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