On June 20, US President Donald Trump sought a time of ‘two weeks’ to decide or decide not to attack Iran. But within two days, on Sunday, American aircraft dropped super bombs at three nuclear bases in Iran. What inspired America to hurry in its military action? Some clues are found from satellite photos.
Ford site satellite photos
Among the three nuclear bases of Iran, the Fordo Uranium Enrichment Center, located in about 120 km South-West from the capital Tehran, is the most important atomic hideout, as it is located 80–90 meters below a mountain.
High-resolution satellite photographs provided to India Today’s Open-SOS Intelligence (OSINT) team towards American company Maxar Technologies showed that unusual ground activities took place on the Fordo nuclear site on June 19 and 20.
On June 19, the convoy of 16 cargo trucks was posted on the road leading to the facility of facility. On June 20, the following photographs revealed that most of the trucks were re-deployed in the North-West along the road.
However, additional trucks and several bulldozers appeared near the main gate, one of which was standing right next to the entry gate of the main tunnel.
Ever since Israel started air strikes on Iran on 13 June, many high-resolution satellite photographs of Fordo Facility have been taken and they have been analyzed by experts. But, except for the recent pictures in any of these pictures, nothing is unusual on the ground.
Military activities in Iran
It seems that the US has created a curtain by accelerating the movement of its military asset, making observations that no military action can be taken before Sunday night.
Publicly available flight tracking data, as well as Air Traffic Control Audio, showed that at least two separate flights of B-2 bombers departed from the Whiteman Air Force Base in the US on Saturday and moved beyond the Pacific Ocean. He was also helped by many air fuel tankers. Whiteman is the operating base of the US Air Force 19 B-2 stealth bombers fleet. According to the report by The War Zone, the bombers later joined additional tankers away from the coast of California.
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The B-2 flying from Whiteman would have taken longer to reach West Asia, showing that the bombers posted in Iran on Sunday morning were taken from the US-UK joint base on the European Base or Diego Garsia Island. It is also possible that a separate group of B-2 aircraft already taken was involved in this operation.
America dropped bunker buster bomb
On Sunday morning, the American B-2 Stealth Bombers, GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Paynetteer (MOP) Bunker Buster Bomb Drop the Buster Bomb, which could penetrate a strong concrete of 200 feet before the blast. The nuclear base has been targeted in Fordo, Natanj and Isfahan from the US.
US President Donald Trump said on June 20 that he would decide within two weeks to attack Iran or not to join Israel. The US attacks took place within two days, showing that the US would have accelerated its action to prevent Iran from transferring its nuclear property to unknown places.
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According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAE), Iran has enriched uranium at 83.7 percent purity in the Fordo plant, which is only less than 90 percent of the purity required to make atomic bombs.