In a message posted in Truth Social, the president reported that “A full charge of bombs” It was launched on the main site, Fordo, and celebrated that all the planes used in the operation were already outside the Iranian airspace and on a safe route towards their bases. “Peace time has come,” Trump wrote at the close of his statement, after congratulating the army for the deployment.
The offensive included the use of B-2 poacherscapable of transporting the GBU-57 MASSIVE ORDNANCE PENETATORone of the heaviest pumps of American arsenal, specifically designed to destroy fortified structures at great depth. Defense experts consider that this type of weapons is the only one with the capacity to seriously affect facilities such as Fordo, built under a mountain and considered a strategic piece in Iranian nuclear architecture.
The attack was preceded by a unusual logistics movement: Days before, at least six B-2 had been deployed from the Whiteman Base, in Missouri, towards the Pacific, accompanied by KC-135 Stratotanker Cistern aircraft for aerial refueling. While initially it was speculated that they could go to the base of Diego García, they would finally have relocated to Guam, from where the operation would have been launched.
From Iran, different officials confirmed impacts in the vicinity of the attacked nuclear sites. Provincial authorities in Qom and Isfahán recognized the activation of aerial defenses and reported explosions close to Fordo and Natanz.
However, regime spokesmen said that the facilities had already been evacuated in advance, without the presence of nuclear material capable of causing a radiological emergency. The advisor of the Iranian Parliament, Mehdi Mohammadi, confirmed that there were no serious structural damage to the reactors.
Iran confirmed the attacks on Fordow
While repercussions by the American operation grow, Iranian local authorities confirmed attacks in the vicinity of the country’s main nuclear complexes. From the Qom Government -where the underground installation of Fordow- A senior political affairs and security official said “After the activation of aerial defenses, part of the site was reached by bombing”.
Simultaneously, ISFAHÁN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS They reported that anti -aircraft defenses were also deployed in that city and in the area of Kashanwhile Explosions resonated around Natanzanother of the facilities achieved.
Despite the magnitude of the attack, Iranian state media tried to minimize the impact. The Radiodifusion of the Islamic Republic (Irib) He assured that he nuclear material had been previously removed of the most sensitive centers, so there would be no risk of radioactive contamination after the bombings, although it was not officially confirmed.
As detailed Hassan AbediniHigh Iranian official, Fordow’s nuclear facilities, Natanz and Isfahán were evacuated in advanceso there was no material likely to generate radioactive emissions. The same version was backed by Mehdi MohammadiStrategic Advisor of the President of Parliament, who assured that the sites “did not suffer irreversible damage.”
Despite the official statements, The state agency Mehr reported that The offensive damaged the main accesses to the complex of Fordowone of the key sites of the Iranian atomic program. The magnitude of the attack and its structural impact are still being evaluated.
Source: Ambito
