Iranian authorities admitted that They managed to secretly transfer almost all of their highly enriched uranium In a place that was not disclosed before the United States began their destructive attack on their main nuclear facilities, reports Daily Telegraph. The operation, baptized “midnight hammer”, took place on Saturday evening. Seven B-2 poachers took off from the United States and downloaded Powerful perforating bombs GBU-57 ABOUT Fordow, Natanz and ISFAHAN ObjectsThe next day, President Donald Trump said that the attack was an “impressive” success. “Yesterday we had an impressive military success, we took the” bomb “from hands to Iran”Trump wrote social truth in his network.
Your Minister of Protection, Pete has a hegsetIt was more stupid: “Iran’s nuclear ambitions were destroyed.” Nevertheless, recent satellite images and intelligence sources suggest that Iran managed to move most of its most sensitive material, including 400 kg of 60%of the enriched uranium – outside the objects before the bombing.
Satellite photos received by Maxar Technologies Show A convoy of at least 16 trucks leaving the Fordo complex on June 19.Just two days before the attack. According to TS2 Space Defense analysts, other vehicles, including bulldozers and security convoys. A similar situation would be recorded in Nathan and Isfahan, where part of Uranus was now supposed to be moved. This nourishes the Iranian version that his main reserve of enriched Uranus was protected before the attack.
Although the objects were white of the 14 bombs in GBU-57-one out of 13,600 kg-and dozens Tomagavk missiles launched from a American submarineThe key question is whether the operation has been neutralized by the real danger: nuclear material. He Israeli analyst Ronen Solomon, Quoted by The Daily Telegraph, he assured that although the transfer of Uranus may be true, the ability to enrich his infrastructure again: “The presence of uranium without centrifugation is like having fuel without a car.”He said.
From Iran, the adviser to the Supreme Leader, Ali Shamhani, warned that even if the objects were completely destroyed, “The game has not ended yet, because enriched materials, national knowledge and political, will remain untouched.” According to the report of the International Agency for Nuclear Energy (OIEA) on May 17, Iran had 408.6 kg of 60%enriched uranium, according to the Institute of Control over weapons – for the production of the pump in less than two weeks, if it enriches 90%.
Iran use Advanced Centrifugers-Law IR-2M and IR-6- In waterfalls to speed up this process. Fordow, its most fortified installationHe is buried in more than 500 meters of rockDesigned for resistance to ordinary attacks. Only the GBU-57, the most powerful non-nuclear bombs of the American arsenal can penetrate this protection.
Although Trump said on television that the objects were “completely destroyed”, the chief of the General Staff, General Dan Kane, warned that the damage analysis was still ongoing: “Initial grades indicate serious damage, but it will take time to find out the total scope of scale.”
The images after the attack show that Fordow, at least on the surface, does not have much visible structural damage. Two Israeli officials told The New York Times that the site received serious damage, but was not completely destroyed. The International Atomic Energy Agency recognized that it is still impossible to check what happened in the underground complex.