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The American strike on Fordow enrichment plant was astoundingly accurate. The U.S. military successfully precision-hit the two weakest points in the mountain over the underground Fordow halls. They happened to be perpendicular to each other at two ends of underground halls, channeling the blasts down the halls at depth. The video below shows the location of the MOP holes relative to the underground facility. One set overlays well with the ventilation shaft work being performed in 2009 and another with service related structures that lay above the cascade hall. A full battle-damage assessment report will come soon! #Fordow #IranIsraelConflict #Iran #Israel

The American strike on Fordow enrichment plant was astoundingly accurate. The U.S. military successfully precision-hit the two weakest points in the mountain over the underground Fordow halls. They happened to be perpendicular to each other at two ends of underground halls, channeling the blasts down the halls at depth. The video below shows the location of the MOP holes relative to the underground facility. One set overlays well with the ventilation shaft work being performed in 2009 and another with service related structures that lay above the cascade hall. A full battle-damage assessment report will come soon! #Fordow #IranIsraelConflict #Iran #Israel

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NEW: Detailed assessment of the Israeli strike on Taleghan 2, a site "used by the Iranian regime to advance nuclear weapons capabilities," according to the IDF. We detail the damage done to the newly constructed, bunkered facility, and nearby structures. Below is a composite image created by transparently overlaying the post-strike satellite photograph taken by Vantor on 11 March 2026 onto earlier pre-strike imagery. The overlays are designed to demonstrate the high precision of the bombing campaign, accurately targeting the facility despite its recent reinforcement — including full concrete encasement and a thick overlying layer of earth. They show that the bunker buster bombs were not only precisely on target along the length of the main suspected high explosive test chamber hall, but it is clear that the bombs successfully penetrated the encasing concrete sarcophagus into the interior given the evidence that the main blast(s) traveled outward from the interior to cause significant collateral damage in knocking down a protective defensive wall just outside the northern entrance. A small building southeast of the facility appears to have been partially destroyed by the concussion from the main bunker buster blasts. Construction of the new facility only started in May 2025, following Israel's October 2024 strike on the previous facility. During construction, satellite imagery showed the front cylindrical portion of what may have been a high explosive containment vessel (see below). We also provide background on the broader Taleghan site, which includes a location known as Taleghan 1 rooted in Iran's Amad Plan and which we have been monitoring for almost 15 years.

NEW: Detailed assessment of the Israeli strike on Taleghan 2, a site "used by the Iranian regime to advance nuclear weapons capabilities," according to the IDF. We detail the damage done to the newly constructed, bunkered facility, and nearby structures. Below is a composite image created by transparently overlaying the post-strike satellite photograph taken by Vantor on 11 March 2026 onto earlier pre-strike imagery. The overlays are designed to demonstrate the high precision of the bombing campaign, accurately targeting the facility despite its recent reinforcement — including full concrete encasement and a thick overlying layer of earth. They show that the bunker buster bombs were not only precisely on target along the length of the main suspected high explosive test chamber hall, but it is clear that the bombs successfully penetrated the encasing concrete sarcophagus into the interior given the evidence that the main blast(s) traveled outward from the interior to cause significant collateral damage in knocking down a protective defensive wall just outside the northern entrance. A small building southeast of the facility appears to have been partially destroyed by the concussion from the main bunker buster blasts. Construction of the new facility only started in May 2025, following Israel's October 2024 strike on the previous facility. During construction, satellite imagery showed the front cylindrical portion of what may have been a high explosive containment vessel (see below). We also provide background on the broader Taleghan site, which includes a location known as Taleghan 1 rooted in Iran's Amad Plan and which we have been monitoring for almost 15 years.

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