Iran’s top-secret nuclear facility buried deep inside a mountain just got hit again as Israel unleashed a fresh wave of strikes on Monday.
The strike, which follows President Donald Trump’s decisive U.S. bombing campaign over the weekend, is being called another massive blow to the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions.
Fordow, one of the Islamic Republic’s most fortified sites, was previously targeted by U.S. bunker-busting bombs in a mission Trump declared a “complete success.”
Now, Israeli media reports that the military has followed up by hitting critical access points to the facility, all while Iran ramps up threats and fires missiles toward Israel.
“We dropped a full payload of bombs on Fordow,” Trump posted on Truth Social over the weekend.
“All our planes are safe. Mission accomplished. Now is the time for peace.”
The Iranian regime, reeling from consecutive U.S. and Israeli strikes, is now publicly admitting that Fordow was hit again.
Officials in Iran’s Qom Province confirmed to state media that damage had been inflicted, but stopped short of admitting the full extent.
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the U.S. strikes likely caused “very significant damage” to sensitive centrifuges buried in Fordow’s underground