NEWS

Israel again strikes the Iran Fordow nuclear site after a B-2 attack

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

The Fordow Iranian nuclear site was struck on Monday while Israel sparked the road strikes leading to the underground establishment following a massive American attack during the weekend.

Israeli defense forces (FDI) said it had led the attack earlier on Monday to disrupt the access roads to Fordow, one of the main sites of Iran enrichment.

The Iranian state television had previously said that the Fordow site had undergone a second attack after the American strike during the weekend, although its report provided information on damage or which launched the attack.

The latest strike on Fordow comes as the FDI said that Israel had also launched a series of strikes targeting several Iranian military command centers in a “continuous effort to degrade the military capacities of the Iranian regime”. Meanwhile, Iran fired missiles in Israel in retaliation after the American strike.

Israel-Iran conflict: live updates

The United States has launched a surprise strike using B-2 furtive bombers and submarines on Iranian nuclear facilities in Ford, Natanz and Isfahan. The Fordow underground site required the use of sophisticated bunker bunker bombs.

A map of Iranian nuclear installations

A map showing three of the main Iranian nuclear installations that the United States struck in a massive attack over the weekend. (Fox News)

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Fordow should have suffered significant damage to the American strike.

“Given the explosive payload used and the nature extremely sensitive to centrifugal vibrations, very significant damage should have taken place,” said Grosi in Vienna.

Experts confident Iran’s nuclear program are “more” after a massive American strike

General Dan Caine, president of the joint staff chiefs, told journalists during a pentagon briefing on Sunday that, although the three Iranian nuclear sites were targeting in the strike “suffered damage and extremely serious destruction”, complete battle damage would take time to assess.

Fordow was photographed in satellite images on Sunday, showing from a bird’s view that the American shot had erased certain structures on the site. In satellite images taken a few days earlier, trucks and vehicles can be seen on the Fordow site.

The IAEA said that out -of -site radiation levels have not increased after the strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran.

It remained clear on Monday if enriched nuclear materials were destroyed in the American strikes or if Iran had moved the material beforehand.

Click here to obtain the Fox News app

Fordow is built on the side of a mountain near the city of Qom, about 60 miles southwest of Tehran.

Yonat Fring of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Related Articles

Back to top button