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Before And After: The Iranian Nuclear Sites Targeted By US Airstrikes

www.rferl.org /a/fordow-iran-satellite-before-after-nuclear/33451430.html

Satellite imagery taken after the US strike on Iran's Fordow site showed smoke rising from the fuel enrichment plant. US President Donald Trump claimed key Iranian nuclear sites had been "obliterated," while Iran claimed it had removed nuclear material from the sites before the strikes.

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The United states is a terrorist country.
- The administration running the country are terrorists who target people, domestic and foreign. Please don't blame the people.
  
  Saying “The United States is a terrorist country” is exactly not blaming the working class people. The state itself is run by and operated by fascist terrorists.
  
  I hope you don't think it's just the current administration. I don't blame the majority of the populace (in the same way I don't blame the average Israeli or Russian for example), but as a political entity this is nothing new for the USA.
  Edit: or rather, from the outside looking in, this doesn't feel particularly off brand
  
  You disagree with the current war, the entire world is on fire because of US imperialism and colonization, and you can't distance yourself from all the benefits and pride you get from the "good side" of America.
  Just like you can't separate America from it's history of being built on the backs of slaves and the institutional oppression that still comes from that, you can't separate your current comforts as an American from their direct causes: oppression and stealing the resources of other nations and using all your "most deadly military's" best stealth bombers and biggest bombs to bully the world through threats of regime change and economic sanctions. Trump isn't what's bad about America, he's just an accelerated conclusion to neo-liberal politics, this is Bill Clinton's America!
  
  I’m an American and I hate to break this to you but the people elected this clown. That’s how it works here. You didn’t vote for him? Okay. But until you’re doing absolutely everything you can to prevent people like him being elected, you don’t get to just shrug off responsibility. I know exactly two people who are doing everything they can, and neither of them is me.
  
  Isn't that what the US constantly does other countries?
  
  I would agree with you.
  but after years of propaganda saying that Gaza needs to be killed because of a 2006 election. I think that logic needs to be applied to the country making that propaganda. The US voted for it very recently, no excuses.
  
  This orange maniac and his entourage could only get this far because of a good portion of "the people".
  
  I live in the US. I blame 40% of the people at a minimum, and likely more than that.
  
  You kinda have to, as it is a democracy, at least on paper...
  
  The funny thing is that no other country's citizens get that benefit.
  Israel? Evil for slaughtering palestinians Russia? Evil for the war on ukraine
  The united states voted trump in, sure some were opposed, but the country chose the administration. Americans should be internationally reviled, we have committed an atrocity via democracy.
- Death from the sky wherever we judge it to be right. It’s some Death Star shit.
- Since 1898.
  
  What an odd choice... I know you're referring to the USS Maine and invasion of Cuba, but that was not the start.
- America is the model the Nazis looked up to.
  
  I've heard that before too but if you are going to try and convince anyone an actual source will help.
- I was so surprised when California Protester Shootings happened and everybody acted surprised.
  I had always just assumed that the US is a terrorist state and these things happen regularly. It surprised me a lot when people acted all shocked about it.
Those neat little slider things that do a great job of showing before and after typically work better when the images are aligned.
- Also, having the handle on the middle of the picture instead of underneath is awful on mobile where you can't see anything because of your own finger.
  
  Grab it with your finger and then move your finger down, you can then swipe left and right without blocking it
Isn't this a CIA website
- I think they lost funding from USAID, so I don't know what it is now.
I thought we needed to use nukes to penetrate their nuclear sites. Either that was a lie or these attacks did not do what Trump is saying it did.
- The US used 14 of their largest bunker busters (GBU-57) at the Fordow facility. That's as close as you can get to nuclear without actual nukes. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/how-effective-was-the-us-attack-on-irans-nuclear-sites-a-visual-guide
  
  Bunker busters only have about 2300kg of payload, the rest of the weight is the penetrator body.
  The bombs are rated at destroying a 20m radius.
  There is some evidence that these penetrators can be guided away from targets by clever architecture. (A reinforced diamond cross-swcrioned concrete beam for instance can guide the penetrator away from its target)
  Long story short we don't know if these did anything.
  Here is the presentation that talks about it https://youtu.be/TriASB-F5UY
  
  for the lazy people: Wikipedia - GBU-57A/B MOP
- I read they didn't knew if it's going to work or not. They still don't know if it worked. Trump says it worked because he's Trump.
~~The landslides at Fordow look extensive. The whole mountain must have shaken.~~
Edit: Maybe what I'm seeing is just shadows rather than new debris at the bottoms of some slopes.
- Landslides? Wtf?
  
  I thought I could see piles of debris at the bottoms of some slopes in the after pictures which weren't there in the before pictures, but now that I'm looking at them again, I'm no longer sure that what I'm seeing isn't just a difference in the shadows. (Presumably the pictures were taken at different times of the day.) I'm going to edit my original statement.

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