B-2 TARGET: ‘BADLY DAMAGED, POTENTIALLY DESTROYED’: A new U.S. intelligence assessment is lending more support for President Donald Trump’s boasts that Operation Midnight Hammer, in which American B-2 stealth bombers delivered 12 massive bunker-busting bombs with devastating accuracy, left Iran’s key nuclear facility in shambles.
The new reporting, first by NBC News and then by the New York Times, cited multiple U.S. officials as describing Fordow, Iran’s most advanced nuclear site, as “mostly destroyed,” setting back operations there at least two years, if Iran decided to try to rebuild.
“Iran most likely still has a stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% purity, which is just below the level that is usually used in nuclear weapons, U.S. and Israeli officials said. But the officials believe it is buried under rubble,” the New York Times reported. “The assessment concludes those explosions wiped out the thousands of delicate nuclear centrifuges buried under the mountain.”
This week, Trump described the June 22 attack as “the most perfect military maneuver that anybody’s seen probably in 50 years,” repeating his claim that it “knocked out their entire potential nuclear capacity.”
“It was obliterated, you know? I used that term, they said, ‘Well, maybe that’s too much.
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