There may be a lot that’s nonetheless not identified concerning the US strikes in opposition to Iran’s nuclear services.
Reviews are coming in about which websites had been hit and what army components had been concerned, as President Donald Trump hails the assault on social media.
This is what we all know to this point.
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A US Air Pressure B-2 Spirit bomber. File pic: Reuters
Which websites had been hit?
America seems to have hit the three key areas in Iran’s nuclear programme.
They embrace Isfahan, the situation of a major analysis base, in addition to uranium enrichment services at Natanz and Fordow.
Natanz was believed to have been beforehand broken in Israeli strikes after bombs disrupted energy to the centrifuge corridor, probably destroying the machines not directly.
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Iranian media confirms the assault on a nuclear website by ‘enemies’
Nonetheless the ability at Fordow, which is buried round 80 metres under a mountain, had beforehand escaped main injury.
Particulars concerning the injury within the US strikes will not be but identified, though Mr Trump mentioned the three websites had been “obliterated”.
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Sky’s Mark Stone explains how Iran would possibly reply to the US strike on Tehran’s nuclear websites
What weapons had been used within the assaults?
The White Home and Pentagon didn’t instantly elaborate on the operation, however a US official mentioned B-2 heavy bombers had been concerned.
Bunker buster bombs are designed to blow up twice. As soon as to breach the bottom floor and once more as soon as the bomb has burrowed right down to a sure depth.
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A file image of a GBU-57 bunker buster bomb, which was probably used within the assault on Fordow. Pic: AP
Israel has some in its arsenal however doesn’t have the rather more highly effective GBU-57, which may solely be launched from the B-2 bomber and was believed to be the one bomb able to breaching Fordow.
Hannity mentioned 30 Tomahawk missiles fired by US submarines 400 miles away struck the Iranian nuclear websites of Natanz and Isfahan.
