BREAKING NEWS Trump Confirms Surprise US Airstrikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites, Including Fordo

[Liverpool Lou]

On 6/22/2025 at 7:25 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

So the tailed wagged and the U.S. is now at war with Iran.

Far from it.

[mikeymike100]

15 hours ago, xylophone said:

Thanks for the laugh, and I think that you really believe that which you posted?!

 

Iran said they were willing to start talks with the US, once Israel stopped their bomb attacks. However the US puppet president held absolutely no sway over Netanyahu, who just brushed him off like a pesky fly and carried on with the bombing, so Iran would not sit across the negotiating table because of this, and Trump and his cronies decided to drop the bombs.

 

Trump is an clown and a dumb one at that and he would have been unable to have an intelligent conversation regarding peace, so urged on by his cronies, he gave the go-ahead, which may well have long lasting repercussions for the US and people/countries associated with it.

 

Just to back that up, he said he was going to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, yet so far he's been unable to do anything about it, again being brushed off like a pesky fly.

 

So the overarching conclusion has to be that Trump is neither a brave, nor a smart man, in any way, shape or form and he has undoubtedly proven this.

I was answering a specific comment, but as usual you deflect because you cannot rebut without writing total drivel.

Any way a moot point now as there will be a cease fire!

[Yellowtail]

On 6/22/2025 at 7:48 PM, theblether said:

This is excellent news. Ten years ago our collective jaws dropped when Saint Barack signed that appalling deal with Iran, now Trump has made it clear - no deals with this devil. 

 

You'd need to have been touched in the head to not recognize how extraordinarily dangerous it would have been to the world if these nutters had managed to create a nuke. Utterly absurd that they were allowed to even get close to doing so. Absurd. 

Indeed

[NickyLouie]

[bannork]

US Intelligence says strikes only set Iran back a few months.

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, bannork said:

US Intelligence says strikes only set Iran back a few months.

early sources in a disputed leaked report to CNN. While everyone else including the Nuclear watchdog says otherwise.

[jerrymahoney]

Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say

Updated 4:54 PM EDT, Tue June 24, 2025

 

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it.

 

The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.

 

But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”

 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement:  Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites

[MicroB]

DTRA had originally recommended tactical nuclear weapons.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/trump-caution-on-iran-strike-linked-to-doubts-over-bunker-buster-bomb-officials-say

 

The issue is not whether a GBU-57 is dropped onto a target, but whether if it can penetrate the target to the necessary 300 feet depth.

[stevenl]

The aim was to obliterate the Iranian nuclear program. According to the latest news, the damage was minimal, a few months delay.

 

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/exclusive-early-us-intel-assessment-suggests-strikes-on-iran-did-not-destroy-nuclear-sites-sources-say/ar-AA1Hlooc

 

 

[cdemundo]

I haven't been keeping with this situation but I was surprised and shocked that the US attacked Frodo.

What did Frodo ever do to the US?

[Bkk Brian]

Interesting to see usual suspects trying to diminish the successful, dangerous daring raid by the B2 and its supporting aircraft that had been planned for years before. Based on one disputed and leaked early assessment report to CNN that is in stark contrast to all other assessments after. The fact is that the IAEA is going to be the only body who will find out the true extent of the damage. They have requested access from Iran. Their current assessments are that there was significant damage to the centrifuges.

[jerrymahoney]

(as above) Karoline Leavitt told CNN:

Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, jerrymahoney said:

(as above) Karoline Leavitt told CNN:

Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

Yes we already know what she said

 

 

 

https://x.com/PressSec/status/1937599769544982577

 

[jerrymahoney]

So "total obliteration" is a good place to start and we can work backwards from there.

[Chomper Higgot]

Back to attacking the news bringer I see.

 

Let’s have some of the promised transparency.

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, jerrymahoney said:

So "total obliteration" is a good place to start and we can work backwards from there.

Away you go then.

[Yellowtail]

4 hours ago, bannork said:

US Intelligence says strikes only set Iran back a few months.

Set them back from what? 

[Yellowtail]

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

The aim was to obliterate the Iranian nuclear program. According to the latest news, the damage was minimal, a few months delay.

 

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/exclusive-early-us-intel-assessment-suggests-strikes-on-iran-did-not-destroy-nuclear-sites-sources-say/ar-AA1Hlooc

 

 

A few months delay from what? 

[Yellowtail]

19 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

(as above) Karoline Leavitt told CNN:

Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

Where's Karine Jean-Pierre when you need her? 

[Bkk Brian]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Back to attacking the news bringer I see.

 

Let’s have some of the promised transparency.

The only news bringer is Iran, they need to grant access which IAEA chief has demanded

 

VIENNA, June 23 (Reuters) - U.S. bombing probably caused "very significant" damage to the underground areas of Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment plant dug into a mountain, though no one can yet tell the extent, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/iaea-chief-expects-very-significant-damage-irans-fordow-site-2025-06-23/

[Chomper Higgot]

Trump ignored the testimony of the U.S. DNI, stating Gabbard was ‘wrong’ about Iran.

 

His spokesperson is now disputing the US Defense Intelligence damage assessment.

 

This begs a few questions.

 

On what intelligence basis did Trump authorize the attack on Iran? 

 

On what intelligence basis did Trump claim complete obliteration of Iran’s nuclear program?

 

Why should anyone not believe the Defense Intelligence Damage Assessment?

[Bkk Brian]

11 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Trump ignored the testimony of the U.S. DNI, stating Gabbard was ‘wrong’ about Iran.

 

His spokesperson is now disputing the US Defense Intelligence damage assessment.

 

This begs a few questions.

 

On what intelligence basis did Trump authorize the attack on Iran? 

 

On what intelligence basis did Trump claim complete obliteration of Iran’s nuclear program?

 

Why should anyone not believe the Defense Intelligence Damage Assessment?

Any more questions you want to throw hope one sticks?

 

You may want to try and keeps things in context, the so called assessment was a preliminary one, others have been published since and as the IAEA has stated, the sites need inspecting.

 

Exact assessments of the damage — which require access to the sites that Iran is unwilling to grant — may never take place.

 

US strikes on Iran believed to have set back nuke program by two years

Saturday’s US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities set back the Islamic Republic’s atomic weapons capabilities by roughly two years, American and Israeli officials and experts tell The Post — adding that Tehran remains “highly incentivized” to pursue a bomb.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/24/world-news/heres-how-long-us-strikes-may-have-set-back-irans-nuclear-program/

 

Its not surprising you are diminishing the impact of such a successful mission

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Even the rabidly rightwing press are only claiming the attack ‘may have’ caused a ‘set back’.

 

I guess we ought really start listening to what the professionals in the Intelligence Community are telling us, be that leaked or otherwise.

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Even the rabidly rightwing press are only claiming the attack ‘may have’ caused a ‘set back’.

 

I guess we’ll soon find ought really start listening to what the professionals in the Intelligence Community are telling us, be that leaked or otherwise.

 

 

Even the rabidly rightwing press

 

Pathetic. 

 

"Rafael Grossi says no one is in a position to assess damage from US attacks; says accounting for Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium necessary to end conflict, bring peace"

 

IAEA chief expects ‘very significant damage’ at Iran’s Fordo site, demands access

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iaea-chief-expects-very-significant-damage-at-irans-fordo-site-demands-access/

[Chomper Higgot]

Here’s interesting.

 

The IAEA stated, on June 13 Iran informed them it would take "special measures" to protect its nuclear materials and equipment.

 

This seems entirely reasonable given uranium’s highly toxic properties.

 

The IAEA has a mandate to monitor compliance to the non proliferation treaty, but under the circumstances of Israel and the U.S. attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities it’s not at all unreasonable for Iran not to provide anyone with information on where materials and equipment have been moved to.

 

The attacks on Iran’s nuclear program have provided Iran a very strong argument for denying all foreign access to whatever remains of the program, equipment and materials.

The success or failure of a bombing raid must surely rest on its overall impact, not simply the physical damage that, in any case, seems not to be as severe as first claimed.

 

[Bkk Brian]

6 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Here’s interesting.

 

The IAEA stated, on June 13 Iran informed them it would take "special measures" to protect its nuclear materials and equipment.

 

This seems entirely reasonable given uranium’s highly toxic properties.

 

The IAEA has a mandate to monitor compliance to the non proliferation treaty, but under the circumstances of Israel and the U.S. attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities it’s not at all unreasonable for Iran not to provide anyone with information on where materials and equipment have been moved to.

 

The attacks on Iran’s nuclear program have provided Iran a very strong argument for denying all foreign access to whatever remains of the program, equipment and materials.

 

 

The attacks on Iran’s nuclear program have provided Iran a very strong argument for denying all foreign access to whatever remains of the program, equipment and materials.

 

Yea that's a good theory for you to play with in support of Iran, well done 

[jerrymahoney]

The topic title is: Trump confirms surprise US airstrikes.

 

With Trump comments like: 'I may do it, I may not do it' and leaving the G7 saying he was going for "something bigger" there was discomfort at the military planer level that he was saying a little too much.

 

and maybe gave the Iranians a heads up

[Yellowtail]

58 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Trump ignored the testimony of the U.S. DNI, stating Gabbard was ‘wrong’ about Iran.

 

His spokesperson is now disputing the US Defense Intelligence damage assessment.

 

This begs a few questions.

 

On what intelligence basis did Trump authorize the attack on Iran? 

 

On what intelligence basis did Trump claim complete obliteration of Iran’s nuclear program?

 

Why should anyone not believe the Defense Intelligence Damage Assessment?

He's Putin's puppet. Putin told him to

[transam]

Seems Trump told another whopper, after watching his televised comments on how wonderful the bombing exercise was, it wasn't...............

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/trump-strikes-iran-did-not-194139814.html

[Bkk Brian]

12 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

The topic title is: Trump confirms surprise US airstrikes.

 

With Trump comments like: 'I may do it, I may not do it' and leaving the G7 saying he was going for "something bigger" there was discomfort at the military planer level that he was saying a little too much.

 

and maybe gave the Iranians a heads up

 there was discomfort at the military planer level that he was saying a little too much.

 

Can you link to that claim please