The existence of Fordow has been known since 2009 (Obama did a big public reveal) and the US has been wargaming it ever since, which led to the invention of the GBU-57. Documents hacked and stolen by Mossad in 2018 publicly revealed the layout and blueprints.
Probably some CIA and Mossad spies got the Intel.
Guy's giving out precise BDA on public French radio which he can do thanks to his intricate knowledge of the Fordow facility from inspecting it. While a lot of what Grossi says is publicly known (US hit weak points above enrichment halls with massive bombs, centrifuges are very sensitive to vibrations), it's still quite shocking that he just comes out and says all centrifuges are destroyed due to his knowledge of the facility. Explains Iran's animosity towards the IAEA. Who wants to co operate with an agency like this?
IAEA chief Grossi gave an interview on French radio today, link here. What I find most interesting is this statement:
Yes, and the knowledge we have of the facilities and capabilities, for example. I'll give you an example: Fordow, the major underground facility that everyone's talking about. It's almost like a movie script. We've seen the images of the perforations from these high-penetration bombs. Obviously, we can't assess the degree of damage. But given the power of these devices and the technical characteristics of a centrifuge, we already know that these centrifuges are no longer operational, because they are fairly precise machines: there are rotors, the vibrations have completely destroyed them. There couldn't have been any nonsense about significant physical damage. So, we can draw a fairly precise technical conclusion. I know the Fordo facility. It's a network of tunnels where different types of activities took place. I can also tell you that what we saw in the images and analyzed more or less corresponds to the enrichment hall.
So that's all the centrifuges at both Fordow and Natanz gone according to the IAEA. Over 15 000 of them were in active operation, 13 000 at Natanz and 2000 at Fordow, with Fordow being especially costly as the advanced IR-6 centrifuges were located there. So the blast pressure and overpressure through the ventilation shafts directly into the enrichment halls destroyed the centrifuges, according to Grossi. Also pretty clear why Iran no longer want to co operate with the IAEA.
Why are they still using IPS in 2025? You can get cheapo smartphones with high refresh rate OLED displays these days. It's not 2013 anymore when only top of the line android smartphones had portable OLED displays, the technology has matured to a great extent.
Something I missed yesterday, to do with this, the entombment of underground nuclear facilities in Iran. Israeli public broadcaster Kan News is now reporting that there is an unofficial agreement/understanding that Iran can't excavate their underground nuclear facilities, otherwise they'll face US military action. The facilities have to remain entombed, at least for now. Israeli state media source so of course remain highly skeptical, but it does line up with the events of the past few days. It also shows that Israel at the very least is pushing hard to keep these facilities entombed. The only thing Iran have done so far is fill up the two craters at Natanz from the two GBU-57 MOP strikes there with lots of soil. Good idea to prevent any potential radiation leakage.
The US warned Iran to stay away from nuclear sites bombed in recent strikes, to prevent Tehran from recovering enriched uranium possibly buried beneath the rubble.
American and Israeli intelligence are closely monitoring the Fordow and Isfahan facilities, where uranium stockpiles may have been stored prior to the attacks, Kan News reports.
A senior Israeli official told Kan that if Iran attempts to extract the uranium, “it’s up to the US” to decide how to respond.
who knows which others aren't.
I think Iran themselves confirmed most of the deaths of senior leadership quite quickly, so that's the most reliable source in this case.
This was always the play for Netanyahu. If he becomes the prime minister who significantly weakened or eliminated most of Israel's enemies (by any means necessary, including genocide), who is going to charge him in Israel?
AOC+3 and Schumer being the great Palestinian senator is just so ridiculous it's making me laugh
Al Jazeera did that and the spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry gave out a generic statement of severely damaged, with no mention of specific facilities.
To be honest this is just turning into another partisan split. Democrats and CNN say the strike did nothing. Republicans in the administration and FOX say it was devastating.
Truth is much more complex, there's no way to know exactly what was damaged underground at this stage.
JDAM or SPICE 2000 in Tehran, June 15
Other angles of a JDAM or SPICE 2000 over Tehran
JDAM maximum range 24km. SPICE 2000 maximum range 60km.
660lbs is the maximum payload capacity of a Hermes 9000, the total weight of munitions it can carry, not the weight of the individual bombs. These mainly carry air launched SPIKE missiles.
This is not being done by drones or cruise missiles, or Israel's very limited stock of air launched ballistic missiles:
Videos and photos of a strike on an underground facility in Tehran
Strikes on the last day of the war on Tehran
Guess the goal from the establishment uniparty is to try split the vote so an establishment democrat running as an independent can win, because there's no way Adams is winning lol. Independent, Democrat, or Republican, Adams is truly in the gutter no matter what.