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2025-07-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran's key nuclear facilities were not seriously damaged

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Posted by badanov 2025-07-19 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [198 views ] Top
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#1 ...Keep in mind that Fordo might not be destroyed insofar as the structure itself is 'intact', we laid down more explosive power on the site than created by the Hiroshima bomb. There is nothing usable inside it, and I would be very leery of going in there to check.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-07-19 07:12|| 2025-07-19 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 This could be propaganda preparation for Iran conducting a nuclear test with a Russian warhead.

This story could give Russia not too plausible deniability.

Otherwise, it would be in Iran's and its allies' best interest to maximize and exaggerate the damage in order to avoid a follow up strike.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-07-19 08:11|| 2025-07-19 08:11|| Front Page Top

Ref #1: "and I would be very leery of going in there to check."

Scotty says, don't go there.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-19 08:22|| 2025-07-19 08:22|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 You don't understand Muslim notion of face.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-19 10:08|| 2025-07-19 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 ...allegory.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-19 10:11|| 2025-07-19 10:11|| Front Page Top

#6 @4 This is a Russian source.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-07-19 10:53|| 2025-07-19 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 ^And?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-19 11:03|| 2025-07-19 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Whatever the damage, it costs money to repair, and I don't see Trump delivering pallets of cash to pay for it. Unless some District Court judge rules that he has to...

Posted by Glenmore 2025-07-19 15:16|| 2025-07-19 15:16|| Front Page Top

#9 @7 This isn't Muslim face saving boastfulness.

This could be propagandistic preparation of an Iranian nuclear test using a Russian warhead.

Medvedev did talk publicly about Russia or others giving nuclear weapons to Iran but backpedaled.

The claim that Iranian nuclear assets were not 'seriously damaged' would give Russia deniability.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-07-19 17:21|| 2025-07-19 17:21|| Front Page Top

#10 The claim that Iranian nuclear assets were not 'seriously damaged' would give Russia deniability.

BZZZZZT. Not. Isotopes and residuals from any test would expose the source of the fissile material. Try again

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-19 19:39|| 2025-07-19 19:39|| Front Page Top

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