Just a minor update…
By side that that itch in my small toe can’t stop making me wonder: if Israel was so super-successful in knocking out the underground nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, and the overground one in Esfahan, as it claimed it was - why was it then necessary for the USA to bomb these by two GBU-57s and 30 TLAMs, respectivelly?
But… well, latest RUMINT is: the Iranians not only evacuated all of their ‘valuables’ out of facilities like Fordow, Natanz and in Esfahan (which is why, in the case of Fordow and Natanz there is none, and in the case of Esfahan only very limited post-strike radioactive contamination), but actually emptied all of these.
Whether this happened yesterday, or the day before: that’s left to be seen. But, and essentially, they’ve removed their enriched uranimum, probably also the mass of centrifuges from the facilities that have been hit.
Point is: in the case of the Fordow, they’ve had enough time to bury all the entrances with gravel and earth, as obvious from photos like these:
What’s more: the US intelligence services must have been aware of the evacuation of this facility. Just for example, two days before the US strike, Maxar has photographed lengthy columns of trucks at the entrance to the Fodrow complex:
…which, obviously, means: there was nothing of any kind of value left inside.
Indeed: this also means that regardless of all the Israeli and now the US air strikes, Iranians took away, and have hidden their stocks of enriched uranium, probably the mass of centrifuges, too.
….and, well, with Israeli and US attacks being in clear breach of almost every imaginable and relevant international law and treaty, including the NPT: why should Iranians now hold back any more?
Man, only true ultra-turbo-super-clever masterminds could’ve calculated this affair with such incredible skill and wisdom. Israel, already neck deep into ruining everything from the UN Charter to the Geneva Treaties in order to complete its genocide of Palestinians and establish its absolute hegemony over the Middle East, has embroiled the USA into an unprovoked aggression on Iran… only to let Iran ‘escape’ with all of its enriched fuels and centrifuges. And not only the Israeli public, but most of the MAGA Americans, and all the possible professional experts are celebrating, plus half of Ukraine and most of Europe.
The humanity is in safe hands, so much is sure.
Cheers!
God, what a mess. Thanks for your time tom.
NPT died in 2014 when the USA and UK failed to honour the Budapest security guarantees, and told every country in the world "only your own nuclear weapons will provide real security. All else is illusory".