Satellite images show construction work at Iranian nuclear location

Satellite images show construction work at Iranian nuclear location

New satellite images show the ongoing work on Iran's Fordow facility for uranium enrichment that was attacked by US B-2 bombers a week ago.

Current developments at the Fordow location

The recordings were recorded on Sunday by Maxar Technologies. According to Maxar, the pictures show "ongoing activities and near the ventilation shafts and the holes in the Fordow enrichment complex."

overview of the air strikes

The pictures show that "an excavator and several employees are located right next to the northern shaft on the height above the underground complex. The crane seems to work at the entrance to the shaft/hole." According to Maxar, there are also several vehicles below the high train that parked on the way that was built to get access to the site.

Details about the US air attacks

Earlier this month, American B-2 bombers have thrown more than a dozen bunker break bombs to the Iranian nuclear locations for Fordow and Natanz. In addition, Tomahawk rockets, which were fired by a US U-Boat, met the ISFAHASTHAUS Iran.

technical objective

The Massive Ordernance Penetrator (MOP) bombs aimed at the two ventilation shafts in Fordow, according to the chairman of the United Chiefs. In a briefing of the pentagon last week, he explained that most bombs that were thrown on Fordow “to penetrate into the main shaft to penetrate more than 305 meters per second into the complex and explode in the target area.”

reactions and predictions

The former nuclear inspector David Albright, who is now heading the Institute for Science and International Security, said that Fordow's recordings showed on Saturday that "the Iranians are actively working at the two MOP attack points that penetrate the system's ventilation shafts." Albright estimated that these activities could include "the resolution of the crater and the implementation of engineering damage ratings and probably radiological sample frames. The craters above the main shafts are still open."

repair work and future developments

"We have observed that the Iranians quickly repaired the damage caused by the bombs on the main accessible road in just a few days. So far, however, there are no indications of efforts to reopen any tunnel access," said Albright on x firm.

statements by the international atomic energy organization

On Sunday, the head of the UN atomic authority said that the US attacks on the Iran would not have caused enough damage that Tehran could resume uranium enrichment "within months". This contradicts President Donald Trump's statements, who claimed that the US operations had thrown back Tehran's efforts by decades.

evaluation of the long -term effects

The comments by Rafael Grossi, the general director of the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), seem to support an early assessment of the defense intelligence services of the Pentagon, which was first reported by CNN. This assessment suggests that the US attacks on important Iranian nuclear locations did not destroy the central components of the program last week and probably only caused a delay of a few months.

Although the final military and intelligence assessment is still pending, Trump has repeatedly claimed to have "completely and completely wiped out" the Iranian nuclear program.

Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno of CNN contributed to this report.