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Seven B-2 Spirit stealth strategic bombers were used in the United States attack against Iranian nuclear sites on the morning of June 22, top general Dan Caine said at a Pentagon news conference, revealing that the complex operation was codenamed “Midnight Hammer”.
The Joint Chiefs Chairman said that “main strike package comprised of seven B-2 Spirit bombers” flying 18 hours from the U.S. mainland to Iran with multiple aerial refuelings.
“Iran’s fighters did not fly, and it appears that Iran’s surface to air missile systems did not see us throughout the mission. We retained the element of surprise,” Caine added.
According to the general, a total of 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs, more than two dozen BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and over 125 military aircraft were employed during the operation.
He also revealed that the deployment of U.S. bombers over the Pacific a day earlier was a “decoy,” part of a wider deception effort known to only a limited number of the operation’s planners.
The goal of the operation – destroying nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan – has been achieved, according to Caine.
“Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” the general said.
A Pentagon-provided map of the flight path taken by the bombers indicates that their approach to Iran took them over the Mediterranean and then over Israel, Jordan, Syria and Iraq.
Speaking during the same conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the attack was an incredible and overwhelming success that have “obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“We devastated the Iranian nuclear program,” Hegseth said, adding that the operation “did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.”
Satellite images released by Maxar show at least six holes on the mountainside at Fordow site, where the 14-ton MOP bombs impacted. The bunker buster bomb is believed to be able to penetrate about 61 meters below the surface before exploding.
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While Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has not yet offered any details of the damage at Fordow, it did state that the Islamic Republic’s knowledge in the nuclear field “cannot be destroyed.”
“They should know that this industry has roots in our country and the roots of this national industry cannot be destroyed,” agency spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said, according to Tasnim news agency. “Of course, we have suffered damage, but this is not the first time that the industry has suffered damage.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian government there is no immediate danger to the public after the U.S. attack on the three nuclear sites.
“There is no danger to the people living on the outskirts of our nuclear areas,” spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said on state television. “The people of Natanz, Isfahan and Fordo can continue their lives.”
Iran has already vowed to retaliate. Responding to this, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that such an action would be “the worst mistake they’ve ever made.” At the same time, Rubio said that that the offer for diplomacy with the Islamic Republic is still open, and that regime change is “not the goal” of Washington.
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‘i will end the ukraine war in 24 hours.’
the drumpfster is completely free from the constraints of accountability. his base is literally composed of imbeciles and psychotics. roy cohn junior gonna roy cohn.
no doubt. him, or, kamel toe. we were fucked either way. but, dont be so hard on his base.
they mean well… most of them, anyway. christian conservatism just seeks normalcy and peace.
and, frankly, radical liberals are far easier to identify than trump supporters. they broadcast it. it defines them. its _all_ they are. literally.
christian convervatism is a euphamism for retarded. nice false binary you threw in there. congratulations.
ok. every one in middle america is like bill cristol then?
another strawman. look at my thumb! gee, you’re dumb.
and to that significant observation 6 months later… what is “poutine” prepared to do in solidarity with iran???
good question. they did just sign a deal for a series of civilian reactors, and likely view as an arrack on the idea of brics. but you cant kill ideas.
what about the chinese? we still dont really know what was up with the chinese cargo planes.
could china have evacuated their uranium in exchange for a defense pact?
after the u.$.’s assault last night on iran, and given what nato$tan has done the past 11 years inside ukraine they are now for better and worse “brothers in arms”!… the only thing that concerns me are russia’s ties to khazarian mafia that were prior to 2014 and for centuries very strong even thought they want to wipe out the russian orthodox population…
something also tells me that the same deal that was hatched to remove the russian military from syria being part i of ii parts will russia being given the go ahead by the west to seize all or most of ukraine in exchange for abandonment of iran…. if poutine buys in on this it will be his worst decision among many in his career the last decade.
nobody wants to wipe out the russian orthodox population. the orthodox church is a great way to keep a vast population ignorant and pliant.
i’m proud of you clyde. you are a perfect wanna-be proxy with the way you play both side($) in every comment. tip a the kippah to you.
it’s just that you’re very stupid and cannot parse anything from other people’s comments. which is why you just keep spewing the same derp. but, you know, everybody’s got to be something. congratulations.
i have an lbgtq rainbow striped dildo as a gift to send to you, once i get your address.
i have no doubt that you have many such items, likely all in an unsanitary state. are you hitting on me?
he was always a warmonger. during his 1st presidency he targeted iranian general in iraq. trump and most americans hates iran it is inherent in american blood. they hate china as well. everytime us population get hoodwinked by their politicians and election of presidents. same in europe. people are stupid. hegseth is a main instigator of attacking iran he was very vocal about this during his time on fox news.
youre wrong.
not every american is a libshit _or_ some fox news watching rube. many of us are, in fact, quite literate on history, context, and don’t have inherent biases just because another country is different and also seeks to grow.
god grants the right to seek to elevate your society. not man.
america is at war with god.
many of “us”? you’re retarded. in the same paragraph you’re accusing others of inherent biases while espousing a religious view of the world that would be considered backwards by the average medieval peasant. nice work.
god grants the right to self defense too.
god just means, inherent. universal. an power greater than you. i think you are the ignorant one here.
of course you think that, because you’re an idiot. your god gibberish is infantile and self-contradictory. keep up the good work.
i agree with you most of the time but it was trump that ordered the killing of soleimani the architect of the resistance to us hegemony and then the iranians bombed us bases and killed and wounded hundreds of us soldiers. trump described us soldiers with traumatic brain injury as a result as having a “sore head”. i suspect the response this time to adelson’s puppet will be worse this time. they have to respond to save face.
the average american couldn’t find iran on a map of iran. they were pounded with anti-iran rhetoric from the time the us installed khomeini in 1979. the ownership class has tried to inculcate the us masses with sinophobia, but it doesn’t seem to have really taken hold.
undeclared, unmonitored israeli nuclear programme totally fair game to target and dismantle now.
always was, but it’s a us program. although the great jewish liberal defenders of equality did use their butt-buddy apartheid afrikaaner chums to detonate their first bomb.
it was a fake attack, kabuki theatre
end of israel nuclear program and regime change in israel.
i doubt that any serious damage was done. now, trump and the neocons can now stroke themselves saying, look at my king kong balls.
keep deluding yourself. muslim leaders always try to save face and their mouths write checks that their ass can’t cash. it’s always the same bs. and the most important thing: iran didn’t even see the b2’s. so what is stopping them from continuing bombing missions? nothing
there was no damage done, because everything was moved away before. unless can you prove otherwise, but you can’t. israel still received its complement of missiles in the face that you said it was easy to destroy in a few days. and the us was so sure of its stealth aircrafts that it engineered a diversion by sending some b2 to guam as a diversion. doesn’t seem so confident to me.
but keep yourslef deluded into thinking that the west is consequence free. israel isn’t.
the tunnels are forever damaged and whatever is inside entombed. that is significant damage.
the us blowed some tunnels and maybe something that was in it ? no proof of anything of course. not even sure it pierced the roof. like the iranians did not know these sites were targeted. do you think they forgot how to dig in the meantime ? do you think the bombs somehow made them forgot how to build centrifuges and enrich uranium ?
oh, i think there will be a few developments that put a damper on the chickenhawk murder machine.
apart from that the sites was evacuated, the clowns 🤡 have get their “wildworm” missiles from “the battle of the five armies”. 😂 excuse me, are war a form of comedy ?
operation midnight hammer.. isn’t that what trump calls it when bibi stays over at the white house?
mileikowsky just grabs him by the pussy.
russia and china only have to put money and weapons…then israel will not resist a long war and usa know it. for other side russia and china wants debris of b2 or f-35 that can be shot down or crashed
who can believe anything zionist isreali genocidal maniacs and zionist usa terrorists say!
jewish supremacists and retarded americans?
crocked trump also said that obama would attack iran. that was short lived he did it himself.
what can actually be done against the israel, europeans and the usa. it seems they are just killing and murdering people and destroying stuff in other countries without consequence?
the iranians were negotiating when they were attacked? did rubio miss that?
i could have made that lame as diagram. and who believes these people when almost everything they say is a lie?
unprovoked attack by the us on iran for regime change on empty bases , straight of hormuz is closing . russia and china condemn . zionist sorcerers dance . remindier iran #2 natural gas and #3 in oil reserves . trump says he is done …. liar