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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/iran-nuclear-sites.html
New Assessment Finds Site at Focus of U.S. Strikes in Iran Badly Damaged
(New York Times) Julian E. Barnes - Iran's deeply buried nuclear enrichment plant at Fordo was badly damaged, and potentially destroyed, by the 12 massive bombs that U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers dropped on it last month, according to a new American intelligence assessment. Two other nuclear sites targeted in the U.S. attacks were not as badly damaged, but facilities at the sites that would be key to fabricating a nuclear weapon were destroyed and could take years to rebuild, U.S. officials said. Without the facilities to manufacture a weapon, U.S. officials insist, any near-bomb-grade fuel would be of little use even if the Iranians can dig it out of the rubble. The bombings deeply damaged Fordo - considered by the Iranians to be their best-protected and most advanced nuclear enrichment site - probably crippling Iran's ability to make nuclear fuel for years to come.