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Mountainside damaged at underground Fordo nuclear site after US strikes, satellite photos show

By AP 22 June 2025, 12:31 pm 1 Edit
This satellite picture by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground nuclear enrichment site at Fordo after a US airstrike targeted the facility, June 22, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite picture by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground nuclear enrichment site at Fordo after a US airstrike targeted the facility, June 22, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite images taken today and analyzed by The Associated Press show damage on the mountainside at Iran’s underground nuclear site at Fordo after US airstrikes targeted the facility.

The images by Planet Labs PBC show the once-brown mountain had parts turned gray and its contours appeared slightly different than in previous images, suggesting a blast threw up debris around the site. That suggests the use of specialized American bunker buster bombs on the facility. Light gray smoke also hung in the air.

Iran has yet to offer a damage assessment of the site.

Other satellite images suggest Iran before the strike sealed up its tunnel entrances at Fordo.

 

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