No. of Recommendations: 3
...and surprise, it contradicts the "strike didn't do much" narrative the media tried to construct in the immediate aftermath.
Whoops. Another L for the usuals.
nytimes.com - Iran nuclear sitesNew Assessment Finds Site at Focus of U.S. Strikes in Iran Badly Damaged
A clearer picture begins to emerge of what the Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites achieved.
Iran’s deeply buried nuclear enrichment plant at Fordo was badly damaged, and potentially destroyed, by the 12 massive bombs that U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers dropped on it last month, according to a new American intelligence assessment.
Two other nuclear sites targeted in the U.S. attacks were not as badly damaged, but facilities at the sites that would be key to fabricating a nuclear weapon were destroyed and could take years to rebuild, U.S. officials said.Indeed.
The main target of the American bombing was Fordo, which was hit by a dozen GBU-57 bunker-busting bombs. The assessment concludes those explosions wiped out the thousands of delicate nuclear centrifuges buried under the mountain, a finding consistent with statements by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.And we had said here that due to the extremely delicate nature of the centrifuges it was highly unlikely they made it through the raid unscathed. The more likely scenario was that most would be damaged beyond repair.
