Chairman of Chief of Staff Dan Kane said strikes on Iran’s Fordaw facility have been in place for 15 years.
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President Donald Trump has pushed back reports showing that the US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is not as successful as originally claimed.
WASHINGTON – After the Pentagon assessment discovered that bombing three Iranian nuclear facilities retracted Iran’s nuclear program every few months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegses and his top military officer revealed details of the strike at Fordow, one of the nuclei, but no important questions were measured.
President Donald Trump and Hegses delved into their claim that the program was “eliminated” after reports emerged that an initial assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency found that it left the prime minister of Iran’s nuclear program and retreated it within a year.
At an early morning press conference on June 26th, Hegseth said the strike would “select, erase and destroy decimating – your word.” He characterized the report as “low confidence” and described it as having a “gap in information.”
Kane explains the Fordau strike and excludes Isfahan’s Natantz
General Dan Kane, chairman of the Co-State Chief of Staff, shared details of the strike at the Fordow nuclear field during the press conference, leaving behind open questions about the attacks on two other sites: Natantz and Isfahan.
Kane described the work of one officer at a defense threat reduction agency that has intensively studied the Fordow facility for over 15 years, and designed to destroy large-scale weapon intruder bunkerbuster bombs. They played a key role in planning the strike, he said.
Kane said the 12 penetration bombs target two ventilation shafts on the opposite side of the Fordau, which was about to be covered in concrete in the days leading up to the strike.
On each side, the first bombs blew the shafts, and the next four bombs went “over 1,000 feet per second.” The sixth bomb acted as a “flex weapon” if problems occurred with one of the previous bombs, he added.
All six bombs “goed exactly where they were going,” he added.
Caine played a group of reporters, playing a picture of a test bomb exploding a hole in the shaft, which left the hole in the ground.
“Unlike a normal surface bomb, you don’t see any impact craters,” he said.
Hegses promoted Kane’s account as proof of the Fordow, whose bomb was completely destroyed.
However, the aftermath at Natantz was not mentioned. This was targeted by Isfahan, who was struck by two penetrating bombs, or missiles fired from a naval submarine. In the wake of the strike, Iranian nuclear program experts and watchers raised questions about what happened to the 880-pound rich uranium, believed to be buried deep in Isfahan’s underground tunnels.
The Maxar Technology satellite image also captured a line of cargo trucks parked outside the Fordow during Strikes days, stirring speculations as to whether Iran had moved some of its nuclear equipment. Iranian officials also claim that the material was removed from the facility.
Hegses had no answers as he was forced by the reporters about these questions.
“We look at every aspect of intelligence and see where it is,” he said.
