{"id":5136,"date":"2025-06-22T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5136\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:58:09","slug":"satellite-images-show-activity-at-irans-fordo-before-u-s-air-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5136\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite images show activity at Iran&#8217;s Fordo before U.S. air strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maxar Technologies, a U.S. defense contractor, released satellite imagery on Sunday showing activity at Iran&#8217;s Fordo nuclear facility prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/21\/trump-israel-iran-conflict.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. air strikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The images of the secretive plant, which were collected on Thursday and Friday, depict truck and vehicle activity near to the entrance of the underground military complex.<\/p>\n<p>Located 300 feet under a mountain and reinforced by layers of concrete, Iran&#8217;s fortress-like Fordo facility is situated to the south of Iran&#8217;s capital of Tehran. It is the country&#8217;s most hardened and advanced nuclear site.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside nuclear facilities at Natanz and Isfahan, Fordo was the target of U.S. air strikes on Saturday. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/22\/iran-says-it-reserves-all-options-after-us-strikes-on-nuclear-sites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> the incursion as a &#8220;spectacular military success&#8221; that &#8220;completely obliterated&#8221; Iran&#8217;s key enrichment facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. president&#8217;s claim about the result of the operation could not be independently confirmed. The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran&#8217;s nuclear safety center had reported no radiation or contamination at the nuclear centers following the attacks, as of Sunday morning London time.<\/p>\n<p>Maxar satellite imagery of Fordo fuel enrichment facility.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite image \u00a92025 Maxar Technologies<\/p>\n<p>Maxar satellite imagery of Fordo fuel enrichment facility.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite image \u00a92025 Maxar Technologies<\/p>\n<p>Maxar satellite imagery of Fordo fuel enrichment facility.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite image \u00a92025 Maxar Technologies<\/p>\n<p>Maxar satellite imagery of Fordo fuel enrichment facility.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite image \u00a92025 Maxar Technologies<\/p>\n<p>Maxar satellite imagery of Fordo fuel enrichment facility.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite image \u00a92025 Maxar Technologies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maxar Technologies, a U.S. defense contractor, released satellite imagery on Sunday showing activity at Iran&#8217;s Fordo nuclear facility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,81,262,5495,51,83,50,375,80,52,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-5136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-breaking-news-politics","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nuclear-weapons","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114726902374759611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}