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In reply to the discussion: MeidasTouch: 🚨 NEWS: Trump has requested that the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room for his [View all]Israel hasnt yet used bunker busters. The U.S. has the trigger for those.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/16/world-news/israel-might-need-americas-weapons-to-topple-irans-fordow-nuclear-fortress-expert/
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/16/air-forces-bunker-buster-bomb-could-take-out-iran-nuclear-facility-israel-hints-other-options.html
The entire Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the spinning centrifuges deep underground at the Fordow enrichment facility south of Tehran are left untouched, the former head of U.S. Central Command said Monday.
"I take it at face value when the Israelis say if Fordow is untouched when they're finished, they would regard it as a failure" of Operation Rising Lion, which began last Friday with wide-ranging airstrikes against Iran's air defenses, military facilities and key leaders, retired Marine Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie said in a Middle East Institute panel discussion.
Former CIA and National Security Council official Ken Pollack, the panel's moderator, said he had been told by Israeli officials that, "If this ends with Fordow still functioning, we have not achieved our objectives."
Even as Fordow remains a high priority for the Israelis, the facility has been relatively untouched thus far, McKenzie said. "I'm certain they're gonna get round to Fordow," he said, but how the Israelis could attack and destroy a facility believed to be protected by reinforced concrete a half-mile underground was unclear.
"I take it at face value when the Israelis say if Fordow is untouched when they're finished, they would regard it as a failure" of Operation Rising Lion, which began last Friday with wide-ranging airstrikes against Iran's air defenses, military facilities and key leaders, retired Marine Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie said in a Middle East Institute panel discussion.
Former CIA and National Security Council official Ken Pollack, the panel's moderator, said he had been told by Israeli officials that, "If this ends with Fordow still functioning, we have not achieved our objectives."
Even as Fordow remains a high priority for the Israelis, the facility has been relatively untouched thus far, McKenzie said. "I'm certain they're gonna get round to Fordow," he said, but how the Israelis could attack and destroy a facility believed to be protected by reinforced concrete a half-mile underground was unclear.
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MeidasTouch: 🚨 NEWS: Trump has requested that the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room for his [View all]
highplainsdem
Jun 16
OP
If this happens and Tehran-- a city of 9.8 million and 16.8 million including suburbs is bombed
hlthe2b
Jun 16
#2
Probably a bunker buster going in to bomb the deeply buried nuke material that
allegorical oracle
Jun 16
#17
Trump is laboring under the delusion (among many), that the country will rally around a "wartime" president.
CincyDem
Jun 16
#6
He could have a sundowner all over them. With any luck all the sane participants could wait til morning...
Hekate
Jun 16
#7
Be sure to have his late dinner prepared--probably steak and chocolate cake with all the goodies.
riversedge
Jun 16
#9
We sent all those tankers as well, and then there's Trump's warning to evacuate Tehran.
D. Spaulding
Jun 16
#12