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Satellite Images Expose Damage and Repair at Iran’s Fordo Site After US Strike
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Commercial satellite photographs taken after the 22 June U.S. airstrikes show extensive damage to Iran’s Fordo uranium-enrichment complex, one of three nuclear sites hit in the raid. Images reviewed by Planet Labs and the Associated Press reveal at least six impact craters on the mountainside that shelters the underground facility, with grey debris and altered contours indicating powerful blasts.
Pentagon officials said seven B-2 bombers dropped 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs—30,000-pound bunker-busters designed to burrow through hundreds of feet of rock—while cruise missiles struck Natanz and Isfahan. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the damage across the three sites as “extremely severe.”
Follow-up imagery collected on 29 June and published by Maxar Technologies, and later analysed by the Wall Street Journal, shows Iran clearing debris, deploying an excavator and crane, and carving a newly built access road up the mountain toward two bomb-scarred ventilation shafts at Fordo. Analysts say the activity appears aimed at down-hole inspections and potential repairs.
Tehran has now acknowledged “heavy damage” at all three complexes, but denies its nuclear programme has been crippled. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi told CBS that enrichment work could be re-established “within months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s assertion that the sites were “completely obliterated.”
The strike—believed to be the first combat use of the GBU-57—deepens the regional confrontation that began with Israeli attacks earlier in June. Iran’s foreign minister has warned of “ever-lasting consequences,” while Washington says further targets remain if Tehran retaliates. Diplomatic efforts to revive nuclear talks have stalled amid the escalation.
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