New images show heavy damage to Iran nuclear facilities up close in US strikes
The army showed videos of damage to Iran's Fordo nuclear site during a US attack over the weekend
The US military has released new videos which appeared to show parts of an Iranian nuclear facility collapsing by the force of massive "bunker buster" bombs.
The US struck three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend, including Iran's Fordo facility.
During a news conference on Thursday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine showed footage which purported to show tunnels in Fordo exploding and collapsing, as smoke and ash billowed in the air.
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Caine said the strike was 15 years in the making saying that the bombs were built with Iran’s nuclear program in mind.
He added that all weapons that hit Fordo reached their target and exploded. Caine said that pilots described it as "the brightest explosion I've ever seen, it literally looked like daylight."
The news conference was held as the Trump administration attempts to refute a leaked intelligence report which found that the US strikes only set back Tehan’s nuclear program by a few months.
President Donald Trump claimed the strikes "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. He said the intelligence was “very inconclusive” and described media outlets as “scum” for reporting on it.
Speaking at the conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “there was a great deal of irresponsible reporting” based on the preliminary intelligence assessment. He criticized “biased leaks to biased publications.”
“If you want to know what’s going on at Fordo, you better go there and get a big shovel,” he said.
Hegseth yesterday announced that the FBI had launched an investigation into how the preliminary assessment was made public.
The assessment reportedly indicated that at least some of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was moved out of multiple sites before the US strikes and survived. It also found that Iran’s centrifuges were largely intact.
