Fordow Stood Still: Why Iran’s Uranium Stayed Put

https://americanliberty.news ^ | 6/30/2025

[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.

[SaveFerris]

[the mountains near Qom]

The Twelfth Imam was unavailable for comment.

The 12th Imam Mahdi is only about....1,156 years old....here in 2025

Fordow - near the city of Qom, Iran, and the Jamkaran Mosque of the 12th Imam down in the well...(LOL) [the apocalyptic mullahs suddenly armed with a nuclear weapon that would allow them to trigger the End of Days they believe are a necessary predicate to the coming of the Mahdi]

[There is no way to reason with Iranian Twelvers - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Twelver though he's not in power anymore]

Jamkaran Mosque at night (Qom, Iran)





Meanwhile, out back, the faithful Iranian Shia Muslims drop notes down a deep well to the 12th Imam - the Mahdi - believed to have disappeared in 874 A.D. and currently alive and hiding in a deep well behind the Jamakaran Mosque in the city of Qom, Iran. (According to their legend)

Twelver Shia Islam legend - Muhammed al-Mahdi disappeared in 874 A.D. (He was FIVE (5) years old at the time of his disappearance)

Muhammed al-Mahdi was born in 869 A.D.

Note:

One of the most significant pilgrimage sites associated with the Hidden Imam is the Jamkaran Mosque near Qom, Iran. Local belief holds that the twelfth Imam is spiritually present there, and many Shia faithful visit the mosque and its well to pray and drop written requests for help, hoping the Imam will read them and intercede on their behalf.

[Albion Wilde]

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[Captain Peter Blood]

How would they have wiped out those trucks?

[aposiopetic]

Under the bleachers at Stagg Field, Chicago, worked fine.

It sure did.

Squash, anyone?

[BenLurkin]

It looks like a cheesy casino

[GenXPolymath]

“U-235 has a half-life of about 700 million years.

It is not very radioactive.”

HEU is so stable you can hold it with your bare hands. Even weapons grade Pu is stable enough for this. Every day people at Pantex handle pits with gloved hands and no shielding other than the coating on the pits themselves. My dad worked at Pantex as an engineer for nearly a decade I remember being a kid in the panhandle.

Same for new reactor fuel pellets you can hold them in your palm and not suffer any ill effects. U235 and 238 have half lives too long to be of issue. This is also the reason to use U235 in weapons of simple gun design other wise the spontaneous fission will cause a fizzle. It’s the Pu 240 and it’s 6500 year half life that makes reactor Pu not suitable for weapons without third gen implosion design.

[SaveFerris]

(SF snickers.....) - hat tip to musicman

[jonrick46]

Well put. The outcome of this complete destruction of Iran’s nuke program will be regime change. The nation will blame supreme leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei for the loss. At 86 years-old, there will be a demand he step down. The dominoes will fly as the people wake up to the $trillions wasted on nukes. As Iran’s people notice the other nations in the Middle East prospering in peace by joining the Abraham Accords and Israel signing peace agreements with the Hamas, Iran will realize there is another way. IMHO.

[Cobra64]

2,500 feet?

[SaveFerris]

[the Abraham Accords]

Beware when some man arises from Europe or the Middle East and
confirms an exactly 2,520-day "Peace Deal" that guarantees the
Peace and Safety (Peace and Security) of Israel and the Israeli people

He will likely guarantee the rebuilding of an actual Third
Temple (this MUST exist for Revelation chapter 11 to occur)

In the EXACT middle of those 2,520 days Satan's False
Prophet WILL implement the coming Mark of the Beast

1,260 days in, at the Abomination that Causes Desolation
The Daily Sacrifice and Oblation at the Third Temple are
brought to a complete HALT and Satan's Antichrist WILL
declare himself to be "god" and the False Prophet forces worship (666)

Granted this won't make much sense right now
but eventually it will become crystal-clear to
Tribulation Saints (Revelation 20:4)

[SaveFerris]

Seems impossible and unlikely - One Day it WILL ACTUALLY Happen

This is from June 27, 2025

“The ‘Abraham Alliance’:
It’s Time for a New Middle East.”



https://www.watanserb.com/en/2025/06/27/billboard-in-tel-aviv-promotes-arab-israeli-peace-plan-featuring-trump-mbs-and-netanyahu/

[SaveFerris]

If any of our FReepers can read Hebrew, and I know that several can, please give an exact interpretation of how that sign reads, please and post it in a reply. I’m guessing that the current interpretation is accurate but I would love to hear it from one of you guys. God bless.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Those three Chinese 747’s that appeared a day or two before the strike weren’t there for diplomacy.

[mlitefan]

It would be a smarter thing to hide 18 containers in an area the size of Texas instead of leaving them in a place likely to be bombed and bombed successfully.

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Except that satellites would point out exactly where they took it. Literally pointing out the needle in the haystack.

Come on...strap on some critical thinking.

[Candor7]

They wanted to pu0t chips in our pets at the Vets.

I said nope. They are all Christians.

[fella]

Astrophysicists do it at far greater distances.

[SaveFerris]

It was quite the way to introduce it

Seems relatively harmless, until
the wrong people get in power
and control access to your money
and your food and your ability to
receive wages for your labor.

It’s going to be VERY effective.

CBDC leading the way.

Palm scanning conditioning
the masses already.

[Brian Griffin]

“Except that satellites would point out exactly where they took it. Literally pointing out the needle in the haystack.”

Satellites can’t see U-235.

Satellites can’t see trucks hidden by clouds.

Satellites can’t see light brown objects thrown out of trucks and onto light brown dirt.

“strap on some critical thinking”

Critical thinking requires knowledge.

[Owen]

Do some reading on orbital recon assets and Synthetic Aperture Radar.

[CodeToad]

So, these pinheads first off have no data to suggest it stayed intact.

These pinheads also want to brag it is a fortified underground bunker only being used for peaceful purposes.

Idiots.