Iran, Fordo
Digest more
Top News
Impacts
The US may consider supplying Israel with bunker-buster bombs to target Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. These bombs, capable of penetrating deep into mountains, could significantly damage the site. However,
Only the U.S. military has the 30,000-pound bomb capable of reaching the facility and the bomber that can carry it.
Israel's ability to neutralize Iran's fortified Fordo nuclear facility is constrained by its lack of bunker-busting capabilities. The US-controlled GBU-57 A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator is the only weapon capable of breaching Fordo's defenses.
President Trump is back at the White House on Tuesday after leaving the G7 summit in Canada a day early to deal with Israel-Iran war. The big decision for Trump may be whether to use
Israeli officials have been pushing the United States to join the fray and use its huge bunker-busting bomb to crush Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Explore more
President Donald Trump is weighing a critical decision in the days-old war between Israel and Iran: whether to enter the fray by helping Israel destroy the deeply buried nuclear enrichment facility at Fordo,
In the span of about eight hours, President Donald Trump went from suggesting a nuclear deal with Iran remained “achievable” to urging Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives
2d
Mediaite on MSNCNN’s Scott Jennings Calls on Trump To Bomb Iranian Nuke Facility: ‘He Would Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize’Jennings, who has been in Israel during the violence, cited an excerpt from a Times of Israel report on X and strongly endorsed intervention from Trump.
Fordo is Iran's extremely fortified underground nuclear facility, built inside a mountain to protect it from air attacks. It plays a key role in enriching uranium, which, according to the IAEA, has reached a level of 83.7% in 2023 - almost the threshold for nuclear weapons.