For days, Israel’s army is bombing Iran, its main goal: Iran’s facilities. Israel is convinced that Tehran is trying to make a nuclear weapon. The Iranian leadership has repeated the charge. At the same time, in the last several decades, Iran has created several nuclear facilities across the country. Many features are thought to give homes to large underground bunkers, where research that conducts any civil applications secretly can be conducted secretly.
Heavy damage in Natanz and Isfahan
Until the attack, Natanz nuclear facility in Central Iran was operating a large scale uranium enrichment up to 60% according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). There is a request to run nuclear power plans between 3% -5% enrichment, and 90% to make atomic bombs.
IAEA Director General Rafael Gossi told the BBC that the above ground centrifugs required for such promotion have been almost completely destroyed in the Natanj. It is not clear whether the underground parts of the convenience were destroyed or not, but the Israeli attack, so caused large -scale power outage, causing significant damage. Groxy said it was possible that “dangerous radiation contamination” had occurred inside the convenience, but that no one had detected outside.
At least four buildings have suffered so much damage in the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center (INTC). One, the uranium conversion facility of Isfahan, which was engaged in processing the so -called yellocke in uranium oxide, then uranium tetraphloride and uranium hexfloride, significant steps for furanium enrichment.
Secret Complex: Fordo Fuel Promotion Schemes
Beyond Natanz, Iran has another important enrichment facility, in the south of the Fordo fuel enrichment plant, Tehran. Located at a former military base near the city of GHOM, Iran leaders secreted the Fordow feature in the early 2000s. Israeli attacks are said to have targeted the site, although there is no report of serious damage so far.
This can happen because a large part of the Fordo Complex is deep underground. To protect the site from possible attacks or sabotage and keep it out of the IAEA inspectors’ view, there was a system of 60 to 90 meter deep tunnels (197 and 295 ft) drilled in the mountains near Tehran.
International International Intelligence Services first created the existence of underground site Public in 2009. In 2012, IAEA announced that Fordow scientists began to enrich uranium up to 20% for medical purposes. ” It is believed that about 3000 enrichment centers have been installed at the underground site since tons. Although Fordow is a smaller complex than Natanz, it is allegedly capable of producing pure grade of uranium, making it more important to military.
What is Tehran to make atomic bombs?
No outsiders know what happens in Fordo. Although IAEA performs theoretical inspections, Iran has a rapidly limited access to international inspectors and even removed cameras with cameras after the collapse of JCPOA (Joint Compilation Plan), or 2015 Iran Nuclear Agreement withdrew its country during its first term.
In late May, IAEA accused Tehran of increasing the production of 60% rich uranium, stating that the country had collected a few kilograms of goods (882 pounds). Weapon-grade enrichment can progress quickly at this point. In the leading days for Israel’s attack, the Institute for Science and International Security, a US think tank published a report, warning that Iran’s known 233 kg arms-grades allow uranium-oriented production, which are just three weeks to manufacture many atomic warheads.
A hard goal to hit
Its potential uranium-enhancement capabilities make Forto a clear goal for future Israeli attacks.
The Israeli ambassador to the US Yachil Head told Fox News, “Entry operation … actually to be completed with the elimination of Fordo.”
But deep buried under a mountain is especially difficult to destroy a feature. Military analyst Sedric Leiton told CNN that Iran had engineered a special difficult concrete to protect the campus from air strikes. Israel has bunker-busting weapons, but still many accurate attacks will be required to pierce the protective shell of the convenience.
The only bunker-busting bomb in the west is enough to achieve the task that is owned by the US. The accurate-directed GBU-57 A/B MOP (large-scale Ordnance Entractor) weighs 14 tons and was developed to reach the goals in deep underground. But the bomb is very large and is very heavy to distribute Israeli Air Force. To do this, the US B -2 or B -52 will request the bomber. Will America itself be allowed to be attracted to a direct conflict between Israel and Iran in the name of ending Iran’s nuclear program, with an open question.
This article was the original published in German and was translated by John Shelton.
