Posted on 07/01/2025 5:59:10 PM PDT by bitt
On June 22, 2025, the United States struck deep. Using bunker-buster bombs, Operation Midnight Hammer targeted Iran’s most fortified nuclear facility, Fordow, along with a constellation of related sites. Within hours, a new narrative emerged. According to some analysts and media commentators, Iran had foreseen the strike and whisked its highly enriched uranium out of harm’s way just days before the bombs fell. It is a seductive story, part thriller, part geopolitical chess game. But it is also, on closer inspection, fiction.
Fordow is not a shipping warehouse. It is a subterranean stronghold. Situated 2,500 feet beneath the mountains near Qom, the site is more than a nuclear lab. It is a fortress built precisely to defy attack. Iran spent more than a decade and upwards of two billion dollars to design a facility whose central purpose was to shelter its enriched uranium. So any theory suggesting that the uranium was hastily removed before the strike must explain why Iran would choose, at the critical moment, to abandon the one place specifically engineered to protect it.
The story begins with satellite imagery. On June 19 and 20, sixteen large dump trucks were observed at Fordow. They were not empty, nor discreet. These were trucks of a kind suited to hauling construction materials, cement, earth-moving equipment, steel sheeting. Analysts who reviewed the imagery noted bulldozers actively placing cement covers over air shafts. These shafts are the known weak points in any deeply buried complex, where pressure and airflow must meet engineering limits, but where adversaries might also insert precision-guided munitions. To harden these vulnerabilities is to reinforce the very purpose of Fordow: to endure.
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Just thinking logically.
If IDF even suspected these trucks were hauling uranium away, they would be whipped out instantly.
“Situated 2,500 feet beneath the mountains near Qom....”
He’s only off by ~2200 feet.
“He’s only off by ~2200 feet.”
If it was 2500 feet beneath the mountain you have to add the height of the mountain to 2500.
Seems to me highly enriched uranium radiates enough energy that satellites could easily spot it if it were transported above ground in trucks.
Those trucks were too small. Trump said they were hauling in cement and things trying to fortify the entrances.
Nope. The facility is listed by all sources as being 250-300 feet below the surface (of the mountain).
Thanks for posting this. It has been my opinion all along because I could not see the likelihood of moving their most cherished potential weapon from its most secure location to a less secure one. In fact, at one point, I was convinced that the Supreme Leader was also holed up there.
Iran’s shiite mahdi had his well shot to hell.
Ayatoilet and mullahs are so pissed that they’re putting out kill fatwas on Trump and Netanyahu daily. All they have left is their fartwa blabber.
Well written article with a sensible analysis.
When I read that, I knew this was a BS article.
“Nope. “
Read my post more carefully.
I said IF it was 2500 feet under the mountain one would have to add the height of the mountain thus he would be off 2250 plus the mountain height.
“When I read that, I knew this was a BS article.”
Why do you consider it BS?
And I’m saying that I’ve read from several sources that the 300 feet is INCLUDING the height of the mountains above.
“In fact, at one point, I was convinced that the Supreme Leader was also holed up there”
That would have been great if their leader were that stupid to get himself buried alive.
“And I’m saying that I’ve read from several sources that the 300 feet is INCLUDING the height of the mountains above.”
You are still not getting what I am saying ...
EXCELLENT!
even if they moved it, its useless. Still has to be enriched further and still has to be “converted”. Then still has to be weaponized to go “super critcal”, very very difficult to do. Then still need a delivery system. What ever was in that complex, its destroyed now.
“Still has to be enriched further”
To go from 60% to 90%+ U-235 requires far less effort and fewer centrifuges than to go from .7% to 60% U-235.
“still has to be weaponized to go “super critcal”, very very difficult to do.”
The testing to do that would have been done years ago.
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