- Joined
- Jul 22, 2013
- Messages
- 11,567
- Points
- 113
THe jewhadi is part of the same non proliferation treaty iran signed. The jewhadi def has nukes. The jewhadi has refused international inspectors. Everyone knows the jewhadi is scum. Except iq60 sjnkies
BREAKING: Trump is expected to address the nation on Iran within 48 hours as Iran prepares bill to leave nuclear non-proliferation treaty
- Thread starter Chase
- Start date
- Joined
- Sep 13, 2023
- Messages
- 2,075
- Points
- 113
Yes, Israel is a signatory to the NPT, but has steadfastly denied all requests for international inspections while building up a sizeable stockpile of nukes.
And then they go and bomb Iran which has no nukes but only nuclear reactors for energy.
Such is the double standard of the US and the American cocksuckers in this forum who say Iran is the bad guy and the Zionists are the good guys. LOL.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 30,700
- Points
- 113
So why the Jews don't nuke Iran. Since they got nukes and Iran don't?
- Joined
- Sep 13, 2023
- Messages
- 2,075
- Points
- 113
NO need. Overkill. They have air superiority, they have the Dome, and they have big daddy Uncle Sam to finish the dirty job for them.
The Jews are evil but not stupid. Very smart actually.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 30,700
- Points
- 113
Wow Jews soo smart..hope they complete the Regime Change...if not Iran will be causing problems again
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 30,700
- Points
- 113
Where are Iran's allies and Kawans? All the billions they gave supporting terrorists groups and all quiet like a mouse...
As the US considers an attack on Iran, only one ally can come to Tehran's aid
composite image of netanyahu and khameini on a background
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is largely alone in his showdown with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (ABC News: Brianna Morris-Grant)
Iran has spent decades propping up militant groups and political regimes across the Middle East, forming its so-called "Axis of Resistance", while pursuing close relationships with other global powers.
Yet after Israel attacked multiple sites in Iran last weekend, sparking a fierce exchange of missiles, those allies were largely silent.
Israel's powerful ally the US has openly discussed attacking, yet only one Iran-backed militant group has stepped in to defend it.
Here's a closer look at the key alliances in the Iran-Israel conflict and how these allies are responding.
Iran's so-called 'Axis of Resistance'
Since the 1970s, Iran has projected its power across the Middle East using a network of close allies that share its aim of countering US and Israeli influence across the region.
This so-called "Axis of Resistance" threatened that any strikes against Iran or its affiliates would trigger a formidable response.
The network grew to include Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, some armed groups in Iraq and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank.
But over the past two years, the "axis" has been dealt some severe blows, with many of Iran's allies in the region either weakened or ousted from power.
Andreas Krieg, a security expert and associate professor at King's College London, says Iran's ties have unravelled.
"It is not really an 'axis' anymore as [much as] a loose network where everyone largely is occupied with its own survival," he says.
According to Ian Parmeter, a Middle East scholar at the Australian National University (ANU) and a former Australian ambassador to Lebanon, that leaves Iran in its "weakest state" in more than 40 years.
"None of its allies are able to support it in a way that they could previously," he says.
"That's why the Israel Defense Forces have been able to launch these attacks on Iran now."
Mr Parmeter says Israel has destroyed Hamas' fighting ability over the past two years of war with the Palestinian militant group.
Meanwhile, in Syria, Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed less than two weeks after Israel's two-month war with Hezbollah in Lebanon ended, severing another critical Iranian link.
Click on the cards below to read more about Iran's remaining allies.
Iran-backed
A sheikh delivering a televised address in front of a blue backdrop.
Hezbollah badly degraded
Hezbollah has long been considered Iran's first line of defence in case of a war with Israel, but the Lebanese militant group has stayed out of the latest conflict.
At one point, Hezbollah was believed to have around 150,000 rockets and missiles, and its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, once claimed to have 100,000 fighters.
The group was drawn into a full-scale war with Israel last September after it tried to help its ally, Hamas, fight off Israel's offensive in Gaza, which was sparked by the Palestinian militants' October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel.
Israel's daring attack, which involved remotely detonating pagers and walkie-talkies armed with explosives that had been distributed to Hezbollah members, killed key members of the armed group as well as some civilians.
While a US-brokered ceasefire halted the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last November, Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon and carries out near-daily air strikes.
Hezbollah's current leader, Naim Qassem, has condemned Israel's attacks on Iran and offered condolences for the senior Iranian officers who were killed.
But Qassem did not suggest Hezbollah would take part in any retaliation against Israel.
ANU's Mr Parmeter says it is because Hezbollah is still reeling from its losses, with Israel having killed most of its top leaders and destroying much of its arsenal.
"Hezbollah has been very badly degraded, and Iran hasn't been able to resupply it with rockets and missiles," Mr Parmeter says.
"So Hezbollah is not able to create a diversionary attack on Iran's behalf."
Still, Qassem Qassir, a Lebanese analyst close to Hezbollah, told the Associated Press a role for the militant group in the Israel-Iran conflict should not be ruled out.
"This depends on political and field developments," he said. "Anything is possible."
Iran-backed
Kataib Hezbollah wave the party's flags as they walk along a street painted in the colours of the Israeli flag.
Iraqi militias show solidarity
Unlike Hezbollah, whose military wing has operated as a non-state actor in Lebanon, the main Iraqi militias are members of a coalition that is officially part of the state defence forces.
For their part in Iran's "axis", the Iraqi militias have occasionally struck bases housing US troops in Iraq and Syria.
One of these militias, Kataib Hezbollah, said it was "deeply regrettable" that Israel allegedly fired at Iran from Iraqi airspace in the last week.
The armed group called on the Iraqi government to "urgently expel hostile forces from the country," which is a reference to US troops in Iraq, but it made no threat of force.
Renad Mansour, a senior research fellow at the British think tank Chatham House, told the Associated Press that Iraq's militias did not want to pull their country into a major conflict.
"Things in Iraq are good for them right now, they're connected to the state — they're benefiting politically, economically," Dr Mansour said.
"They've seen what's happened to Iran, to Hezbollah, and they're concerned that Israel will turn on them as well."
Iran-backed
Houthi fighters and tribesmen stand on and around a ute holding up guns.
Houthis still attacking
The Houthis remain the only Iran-backed group still firing missiles at Israel as part of a campaign that began with the Gaza war in solidarity with Palestinians.
"Triumphing for the oppressed Palestinian and Iranian peoples … This operation was coordinated with the operations carried out by the Iranian army," a military spokesperson said after targeting central Israel's Jaffa.
The Houthis are mountain fighters who have been battling Saudi-led forces for control of Yemen, in what is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
They have been the de facto government in north Yemen since a 2022 ceasefire.
The group has a large arsenal of armed drones and ballistic missiles largely supplied by Iran, which it has previously used to fire at ships in the Red Sea, a crucial global trade route.
But the ANU's Mr Parmeter says the Houthis are too geographically removed to strategically harm Israel beyond the rebels' sporadic missile attacks.
"Yemen is certainly supported by Iran, but it's too far away to be able to do much damage to Israel," he says.
The US has thwarted most of the previous attacks and carried out retaliatory strikes with Israel on Houthi bases.
Could Iran's global allies step in?
Iran is also part of an informal network of "CRINK" countries, which is an acronym for China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
So far, China has condemned Israel's attacks on Iran but it has limited its response to supporting a diplomatic solution.
North Korea has also condemned the attacks as a "crime against humanity" without offering Iran further support.
It's Russia, however, that has stepped in by offering to mediate the conflict.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stands in front of two iranian flags and a russian flag
Vladimir Putin has close ties with both Iran and Israel's leader.(Reuters: Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)
President Vladimir Putin has denounced the attacks on Iran and has reportedly warned that any US intervention would be a "terrible spiral of escalation".
"Russia is certainly very close to Iran at the moment and it's playing a very important role in supplying drones to Russia for the war in Ukraine," Mr Parmeter says.
"So Russia owes Iran for its drones, but, at the same time, Putin and Netanyahu get on very well personally."
According to Mr Parmeter, Russia's offer to mediate is unlikely to "go anywhere" and "it's just a good way for Putin to present as an international statesman".
Mr Parmeter says it is also unlikely that other Arab countries such as Egypt, Jordan or the United Arab Emirates would support Iran because they are not close and would not want further escalation.
Israel and US 'extraordinarily close'
Donald Trump shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu at an entrance to the White House
Donald Trump shares a close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu.(Reuters)
As for Israel, it has the militarily and politically powerful United States as a close ally.
"Netanyahu won't do anything without first clearing it with Trump, he has an extraordinarily close relationship with him," Mr Parmeter says.
US President Donald Trump has called for Iran's "unconditional surrender" and raised the idea that its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, would be an "easy target" if he were to be assassinated.
But the US says it is maintaining a "defensive" position in the Iran–Israel conflict for now, meaning it is only focused on deterring or intercepting attacks on Israel.
Still, Mr Trump has teased that the US "may or may not" strike Iran and would make a decision "within two weeks".
The US currently holds a significant military presence in more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries and on ships throughout the region's waters, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr Parmeter says Israel would want the US to get involved because it needs the American "bunker-buster" bombs to finish destroying Iran's nuclear sites.
These bombs are designed to penetrate deep below the surface before exploding, making them ideal for attacking hardened bunkers and tunnels.
In this case, Mr Parmeter says Israel needs them to significantly damage Iran's Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant, built deeply into a mountain.
"The big risk is the United States will get involved in some way, but I don't see it getting involved with boots on the ground or much more than using their bunker-buster bombs," he says.
That's because Mr Trump is facing domestic pressure from within his own Republican base, which is "divided" on whether to get involved in another war, Mr Parmeter says.
Meanwhile, the G7 countries have also expressed their support for the security of Israel, but have urged for "a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza".
Posted Yesterday at 11:27am, updated Yesterday at 3:15pm
Share
As the US considers an attack on Iran, only one ally can come to Tehran's aid
composite image of netanyahu and khameini on a background
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is largely alone in his showdown with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (ABC News: Brianna Morris-Grant)
Iran has spent decades propping up militant groups and political regimes across the Middle East, forming its so-called "Axis of Resistance", while pursuing close relationships with other global powers.
Yet after Israel attacked multiple sites in Iran last weekend, sparking a fierce exchange of missiles, those allies were largely silent.
Israel's powerful ally the US has openly discussed attacking, yet only one Iran-backed militant group has stepped in to defend it.
Here's a closer look at the key alliances in the Iran-Israel conflict and how these allies are responding.
Iran's so-called 'Axis of Resistance'
Since the 1970s, Iran has projected its power across the Middle East using a network of close allies that share its aim of countering US and Israeli influence across the region.
This so-called "Axis of Resistance" threatened that any strikes against Iran or its affiliates would trigger a formidable response.
The network grew to include Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, some armed groups in Iraq and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank.
But over the past two years, the "axis" has been dealt some severe blows, with many of Iran's allies in the region either weakened or ousted from power.
Andreas Krieg, a security expert and associate professor at King's College London, says Iran's ties have unravelled.
"It is not really an 'axis' anymore as [much as] a loose network where everyone largely is occupied with its own survival," he says.
According to Ian Parmeter, a Middle East scholar at the Australian National University (ANU) and a former Australian ambassador to Lebanon, that leaves Iran in its "weakest state" in more than 40 years.
"None of its allies are able to support it in a way that they could previously," he says.
"That's why the Israel Defense Forces have been able to launch these attacks on Iran now."
Mr Parmeter says Israel has destroyed Hamas' fighting ability over the past two years of war with the Palestinian militant group.
Meanwhile, in Syria, Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed less than two weeks after Israel's two-month war with Hezbollah in Lebanon ended, severing another critical Iranian link.
Click on the cards below to read more about Iran's remaining allies.
Iran-backed
A sheikh delivering a televised address in front of a blue backdrop.
Hezbollah badly degraded
Hezbollah has long been considered Iran's first line of defence in case of a war with Israel, but the Lebanese militant group has stayed out of the latest conflict.
At one point, Hezbollah was believed to have around 150,000 rockets and missiles, and its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, once claimed to have 100,000 fighters.
The group was drawn into a full-scale war with Israel last September after it tried to help its ally, Hamas, fight off Israel's offensive in Gaza, which was sparked by the Palestinian militants' October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel.
Israel's daring attack, which involved remotely detonating pagers and walkie-talkies armed with explosives that had been distributed to Hezbollah members, killed key members of the armed group as well as some civilians.
While a US-brokered ceasefire halted the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last November, Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon and carries out near-daily air strikes.
Hezbollah's current leader, Naim Qassem, has condemned Israel's attacks on Iran and offered condolences for the senior Iranian officers who were killed.
But Qassem did not suggest Hezbollah would take part in any retaliation against Israel.
ANU's Mr Parmeter says it is because Hezbollah is still reeling from its losses, with Israel having killed most of its top leaders and destroying much of its arsenal.
"Hezbollah has been very badly degraded, and Iran hasn't been able to resupply it with rockets and missiles," Mr Parmeter says.
"So Hezbollah is not able to create a diversionary attack on Iran's behalf."
Still, Qassem Qassir, a Lebanese analyst close to Hezbollah, told the Associated Press a role for the militant group in the Israel-Iran conflict should not be ruled out.
"This depends on political and field developments," he said. "Anything is possible."
Iran-backed
Kataib Hezbollah wave the party's flags as they walk along a street painted in the colours of the Israeli flag.
Iraqi militias show solidarity
Unlike Hezbollah, whose military wing has operated as a non-state actor in Lebanon, the main Iraqi militias are members of a coalition that is officially part of the state defence forces.
For their part in Iran's "axis", the Iraqi militias have occasionally struck bases housing US troops in Iraq and Syria.
One of these militias, Kataib Hezbollah, said it was "deeply regrettable" that Israel allegedly fired at Iran from Iraqi airspace in the last week.
The armed group called on the Iraqi government to "urgently expel hostile forces from the country," which is a reference to US troops in Iraq, but it made no threat of force.
Renad Mansour, a senior research fellow at the British think tank Chatham House, told the Associated Press that Iraq's militias did not want to pull their country into a major conflict.
"Things in Iraq are good for them right now, they're connected to the state — they're benefiting politically, economically," Dr Mansour said.
"They've seen what's happened to Iran, to Hezbollah, and they're concerned that Israel will turn on them as well."
Iran-backed
Houthi fighters and tribesmen stand on and around a ute holding up guns.
Houthis still attacking
The Houthis remain the only Iran-backed group still firing missiles at Israel as part of a campaign that began with the Gaza war in solidarity with Palestinians.
"Triumphing for the oppressed Palestinian and Iranian peoples … This operation was coordinated with the operations carried out by the Iranian army," a military spokesperson said after targeting central Israel's Jaffa.
The Houthis are mountain fighters who have been battling Saudi-led forces for control of Yemen, in what is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
They have been the de facto government in north Yemen since a 2022 ceasefire.
The group has a large arsenal of armed drones and ballistic missiles largely supplied by Iran, which it has previously used to fire at ships in the Red Sea, a crucial global trade route.
But the ANU's Mr Parmeter says the Houthis are too geographically removed to strategically harm Israel beyond the rebels' sporadic missile attacks.
"Yemen is certainly supported by Iran, but it's too far away to be able to do much damage to Israel," he says.
The US has thwarted most of the previous attacks and carried out retaliatory strikes with Israel on Houthi bases.
Could Iran's global allies step in?
Iran is also part of an informal network of "CRINK" countries, which is an acronym for China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
So far, China has condemned Israel's attacks on Iran but it has limited its response to supporting a diplomatic solution.
North Korea has also condemned the attacks as a "crime against humanity" without offering Iran further support.
It's Russia, however, that has stepped in by offering to mediate the conflict.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stands in front of two iranian flags and a russian flag
Vladimir Putin has close ties with both Iran and Israel's leader.(Reuters: Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)
President Vladimir Putin has denounced the attacks on Iran and has reportedly warned that any US intervention would be a "terrible spiral of escalation".
"Russia is certainly very close to Iran at the moment and it's playing a very important role in supplying drones to Russia for the war in Ukraine," Mr Parmeter says.
"So Russia owes Iran for its drones, but, at the same time, Putin and Netanyahu get on very well personally."
According to Mr Parmeter, Russia's offer to mediate is unlikely to "go anywhere" and "it's just a good way for Putin to present as an international statesman".
Mr Parmeter says it is also unlikely that other Arab countries such as Egypt, Jordan or the United Arab Emirates would support Iran because they are not close and would not want further escalation.
Israel and US 'extraordinarily close'
Donald Trump shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu at an entrance to the White House
Donald Trump shares a close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu.(Reuters)
As for Israel, it has the militarily and politically powerful United States as a close ally.
"Netanyahu won't do anything without first clearing it with Trump, he has an extraordinarily close relationship with him," Mr Parmeter says.
US President Donald Trump has called for Iran's "unconditional surrender" and raised the idea that its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, would be an "easy target" if he were to be assassinated.
But the US says it is maintaining a "defensive" position in the Iran–Israel conflict for now, meaning it is only focused on deterring or intercepting attacks on Israel.
Still, Mr Trump has teased that the US "may or may not" strike Iran and would make a decision "within two weeks".
The US currently holds a significant military presence in more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries and on ships throughout the region's waters, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr Parmeter says Israel would want the US to get involved because it needs the American "bunker-buster" bombs to finish destroying Iran's nuclear sites.
These bombs are designed to penetrate deep below the surface before exploding, making them ideal for attacking hardened bunkers and tunnels.
In this case, Mr Parmeter says Israel needs them to significantly damage Iran's Fordow nuclear fuel enrichment plant, built deeply into a mountain.
"The big risk is the United States will get involved in some way, but I don't see it getting involved with boots on the ground or much more than using their bunker-buster bombs," he says.
That's because Mr Trump is facing domestic pressure from within his own Republican base, which is "divided" on whether to get involved in another war, Mr Parmeter says.
Meanwhile, the G7 countries have also expressed their support for the security of Israel, but have urged for "a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza".
Posted Yesterday at 11:27am, updated Yesterday at 3:15pm
Share
Iran has nuke and relutant to use it. Because once it fly and miss, then the world give it a second chance.
Israel wont use it because pointless. nuke only kills more citizens than destory its fighting capability. Jews are smart not idoits.
Israel wont use it because pointless. nuke only kills more citizens than destory its fighting capability. Jews are smart not idoits.
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2008
- Messages
- 18,422
- Points
- 113
Trump is gonna enter the war. He is moving his planes and troops into position as well as taking out his bases in Middle East in case Iran decide to whack them. He has been itching to do so for long time.
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 30,700
- Points
- 113
I hope Trump don't take the eye of the ball on abolishing the deep state...the deep state and the Globalist are the number 1 enemy of the ppl...but getting rid of the iranian gahmen does help In weakening the deep state
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2013
- Messages
- 11,567
- Points
- 113
Because the region will be contaminated. Aslo they will be exposed for the liars them and america are. As it stands, assorted morons especially sinkies are already brainwashed. Pkease take your boosters
I agree
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 30,700
- Points
- 113
If this facility is not destroyed..the Jewish attack is for nothing..
The key to Iran's nuclear program lies under these mountains
Tehran
Fordow nuclear facility
IRAN
Sat 21 Jun
Saturday 21 June
Deep below a mountain in Iran sits a once-secret uranium enrichment facility that now threatens to drag the United States into the Israel-Iran conflict.
There is one bomb — a so-called “bunker-buster” — that may be able to reach and destroy the facility.
But there is only one country in the world that could drop it.
This is the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, located near the city of Qom.
Aerial imagery shows the facility nestled in a mountain.
It is accessed via tunnels, evidenced by entrances visible from the surface.
The bulk of the nuclear facility is located under an estimated 90 metres of rock.
At its heart is a large hall that houses centrifuges to enrich uranium to certain percentages.
As if a mountain was not defence enough against air strikes — there are thought to be blast or debris traps near its entrances.
A low percentage of enrichment — about 3 to 5 per cent — is required for the uranium to be used in civilian settings, like a nuclear power plant.
A high level — generally about 90 per cent — is needed for use in modern atomic weapons.
Fordow’s location means conventional bombs, like those in Israel’s possession, would have little to no effect on the parts of the facility buried deep.
A secret base revealed
In 2009, then-US president Barack Obama stood alongside the leaders of France and the UK and revealed Iran had been building a “covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years”.
He said a week earlier, Tehran had written to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), mentioning “a new enrichment facility, years after they had started its construction”.
IAEA inspectors were allowed into the facility in late 2009, where they were shown two halls, according to a 2019 report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).
The think tank is led by David Albright, a leading American physicist and nuclear weapons expert, who is also a former weapons inspector.
The report said one hall contained what one might expect for the enrichment of uranium for use in nuclear reactors, but the other hall was being stripped and modified at the time.
“These observations contributed to several inspectors, including ones who were experts in gas centrifuges, becoming suspicious that this hall was for the onward enrichment of uranium up to weapon-grade,” the report, authored by Mr Albright and two others, read.
“Of course, Iran denied any such work,” it said.
Under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), colloquially known as the Iran deal, Fordow was allowed to operate as a nuclear physics and technology centre, but was banned from uranium enrichment and storing nuclear material at the site for 15 years.
“The US and allied negotiators were not able to convince Iran to shut down this site, even though it has no credible civilian nuclear justification,” the ISIS report said.
In 2018, during his first term, US President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Iran deal, reportedly just days after a briefing from the Israeli prime minister on a daring raid in Tehran by Israel’s foreign intelligence service, Mossad.
A raid in the night
The raid on Iran’s “Atomic Archive”, as it was labelled by Israel, has been extensively documented by the New York Times and Washington Post.
The publications describe a clandestine night raid in early 2018 on a nondescript warehouse in Tehran by agents of Mossad.
The agents torched their way into some of the 32 safes contained in the warehouse, after a two-year surveillance operation, stealing and smuggling out of the country tens of thousands of documents and compact discs containing memos, videos and plans relating to Iran’s past nuclear research.
Confirmed Israeli missile strikes since June 13
Tabriz missile
base
Tehran
Natanz nuclear facility
IRAN
Source: Institute for the Study of War
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the heist in April 2018 — presenting some of the documents in a televised address, arguing against the Iran deal.
Later, select media outlets were given access to some of the haul by Israeli officials, who decided what they could and couldn’t see.
At the time, Iran said the documents were fraudulent.
“Iran has always been clear that creating indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction is against what we stand for as a country and the notion that Iran would abandon any kind of sensitive information in some random warehouse in Tehran is laughably absurd,” a statement from its UN mission in New York read.
But among the haul was a picture showing support facilities for the Fordow nuclear facility, then named the Al Ghadir project site.
It also contained designs and diagrams for the underground portion of the project, according to the Institute for Science and International Security.
The ABC’s 3D map of the facility, featured above, is based on these blueprints — which are understood to be the only publicly available layouts of the facility.
ADD YOUR ALT TEXT HERE
200m
Suspected
Tunnel
entrance
entrances
250m
Support
building
The IAEA says Iran stopped implementing all of the commitments it made as part of the Iran deal in February 2021 — including allowing daily access to Fordow, on request, for monitoring.
The watchdog has still been able to verify what’s happening at Fordow at less regular intervals.
Its latest report, released more than a week ago, said the facility was enriching uranium to 60 per cent — adding changes in its enrichment process had “significantly” increased the rate of production.
“It’s actually easier to go from an enrichment of 60 per cent to 90 per cent than it is to get to that initial 60 per cent,” said nuclear physicist Kaitlin Cook in The Conversation.
“It’s a fairly trivial last step to go 90 per cent, which is why people were alarmed,” said Jeffrey Lewis, an expert in nuclear non-proliferation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
“Fordow is not the largest enrichment facility, but it is the enrichment facility that we expected Iran to build as part of its nuclear weapons program.
“If your goal is to eliminate the nuclear program, you have to eliminate Fordow,” he said.
Dan Shapiro, who was the US ambassador to Israel under Barack Obama until 2017, told ABC TV’s 7.30 that he believed Fordow needed to be destroyed.
“If it survives and continues to be a facility where they can enrich at 60 per cent and when they choose, to sprint to 90 per cent, this campaign will not have achieved its objective,” he said.
“They [Iran] will remain capable and maybe even more motivated to produce a nuclear weapon at any time of their choosing.”
Iran has long denied having a nuclear weapons program.
“Iran declared … quite a few times that … it does not have any nuclear, you know, just program in terms of military aspects,” the Iranian ambassador to Australia, Ahmad Sadeghi, told the ABC’s David Speers on Wednesday.
The massive ordnance penetrator
According to experts from the Royal United Services Institute, there is only one conventional weapon thought to be big enough to reach and destroy Fordow.
The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a behemoth.
It weighs more than 13 tonnes, stands 6 metres tall and is specifically designed to “defeat hard and deeply buried targets” like bunkers and tunnels, according to a fact sheet from a US Department of Defense agency.
It is said to be able to reach depths of up to 60 metres before exploding.
“Multiple GBU-57/B impacts would almost certainly be required to reach the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, with the second bomb impacting inside the hole made by the first,” said Justin Bronk, an air power specialist at RUSI.
The United States is the only country known to have this kind of bomb — and the only one with the aircraft approved to deliver it, the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
“While each B-2 can carry two GBU-57/Bs, such an attack would require redundancy since the weapons would have to function and be delivered perfectly to get down into the facility, and explode at the right depth to cause critical damage,” Professor Bronk told ABC NEWS Verify.
Another bombing aircraft, the B-52, has dropped the bombs during testing.
B-2 bombers operate out of a US Air Force base in Missouri.
But the uniquely shaped aircraft have, as recently as April, been seen at an air base on the island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean.
ADD YOUR ALT TEXT HERE
B-2 Spirit
Stealth Bomber
April 12, 2025
Source: Planet Labs
GBU-57
6.2m
That same month, US media reported the B-2s were being stationed there in a display of power to countries like Iran.
Whether they take off from the US or the Indian Ocean, the stealth bombers’ range limitations mean they might need to refuel while in the air on any mission to Iran.
According to Reuters, AirNav systems, a flight tracking website, said more than 31 US Air Force refuelling aircraft — primarily KC-135s and KC-46s — left the United States on Sunday.
It said the flights had landed in Europe.
The decision to bomb, or not, will ultimately be decided by the US commander-in-chief, Donald Trump.
“I may do it. I may not do it,” he said on Wednesday.
The White House said on Friday that Trump would decide on whether to intervene in the conflict, or not, within two weeks.
If a bombing raid is given the green light by the US president, there is no guarantee it will work.
But in a 2024 podcast, David Albright said he believed Fordow was “more vulnerable” than people thought.
“We have the building designs, it’s in the nuclear archive,” he told Arms Control Poseur.
“Israel has even more of those designs, they know exactly how the tunnels go, where they start, how they zig and zag, where the ventilation system is, the power supplies.
“You don’t have to bring down the roof of the enrichment hall to put that facility out of operation for a long time,” he said.
Notes about data used in this story:
The satellite image used in the 3D model is from Planet Labs. Elevation data is from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and map boundaries are from Natural Earth.
Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was originally signed by the Obama administration in 2015. The JCPOA aimed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for economic relief. The Trump administration withdrew, claiming the deal was flawed and didn't prevent Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons.
Now want to TACO again
Now want to TACO again
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 30,700
- Points
- 113
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2024
- Messages
- 5,316
- Points
- 113
No one has a nuke but we have plenty of fools willing to repeat a hoax for more than a million times
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2018
- Messages
- 30,700
- Points
- 113
I hope this does not distract Trump from dealing with the Deep state....the Deep state globalists are the real enemy....the likes of Obama, Soros, bushes, clintons n Bidens etc...for all those who hate n kpkb the yanks day in day out...see who are the ones causing problems n who is cleaning it up
Similar threads
