Secrets on Iran’s nuclear strike spill when the pentagon defends the bombings

The Pentagon launched an extraordinary amount of details on the most secret bombing of the army of Iran’s nuclear facilities and its defense of an air base in Qatar.

Unusual revelations, including analysts informed in secret locations, the bombs fell into ventilation axes and a small group of young members of the service that remain on a basis to tear down Iranian missiles, is being orchestrated by a white house angered by the questions about the effectiveness of the United States strike, which was addressed to three Iranian nuclear objectives on June 21.

Trump insists that Iran’s nuclear program has been “erased”, while an early military intelligence evaluation said the strike could only have delayed Iran’s program for “months.” Military officers say they need much more time to assess the damage.

This is what we have learned:

There was a 15 -year secret mission to discover how to destroy Iran’s Nuclear Installation

In 2009, an American officer who worked for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency was taken to a vault in an unleashed place and showed highly classified photos of a construction site in the Iranian mountains, according to General Dan Caine, president of the team leaders.

Caine said the officer and another colleague would spend 15 years studying the site. They analyzed the weather and geology of the mountain, together with any discarded article from the site. They also looked at ventilation axes, electrical systems and environmental control systems, he said.

“Every corner, every crater, every piece of team that entered and every team that came out, literally dreamed with this goal at night when they slept,” Caine said.

When the analysts realized that they did not have a weapon to hit Fordo if necessary, Caine said they associated with the industry in a high secret effort to build the massive artillery penetrator, or GBU-57, specifically to hit him.

“Then, on June 2025, more than 15 years after they started the work of his life, the phone rang and the president of the United States ordered force B-2” to reach the goal, Caine said.

Later, one of them told Caine: “I can’t even understand this.”

12 bombs were dropped two limited ventilation axes with concrete

In an attempt to defend strikes and successful, both Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, in recent days have publicly revealed that 12 of the 14 massive artillery penetrators used in the June 21 strike were removed in nuclear facilities in Fordo.

In Thursday’s informative session, Caine went further, describing that six bunker-buuster pumps dropped into each of the two ventilation axes with fuses scheduled to detonate at specific times.

Caine said the Iranians had covered the ventilation axes with concrete tapas, but the first bomb blew the tapas. After that, the next four pumps were scheduled to release more than 1,000 feet per second and “explode in the mission space.” The final bomb was designated as a “flexible weapon” or backup, he said.

“The six weapons in each ventilation, in Fordow were exactly where they were destined to go,” said Caine, adding that the result was “a mixture of overpressure and explosion through open tunnels and destroying critical hardware.”

Caine said the combat pilots who followed the B-2 bombers said that after the first bomb he hit the objective “the pilots said, quoted, this was the brightest explosion I have seen. Literally seemed the light of day.”

Dia says that Fordo was damaged, but the questions are still the impact on Iran’s nuclear program

Approximately one day after the attack, the Defense Intelligence Agency produced an early evaluation that estimated Iran’s nuclear program was retreated for “months.”

According to the two people familiar with the classified report, the bombing sealed the entries to two of the three nuclear sites directed in the attack, but that most of the damage was made to structures on the ground, leaving the lower intact structures. The evaluation also found that at least one enriched uranium remained, possibly moved from nuclear sites before explosions.

President Donald Trump insists that enriched uranium was not transferred in advance.

Hegesh, visibly angry because the details of the report had leaked, said that “new intelligence” estimates that Iran’s program has been retreated for “years”, not months, and read of the classified evaluation to journalists.

“He points out that he has not been coordinated with the intelligence community at all,” said Hegseth, added that the report was labeled as “little confidence.”

A couple of dozen members of the service in their 20 years defended an American air base in Qatar.

Two days after the strike, US officials learned that I would plan to launch a retaliation attack against an American air base in Qatar called Al-Edeid.

According to Caine, officials quickly evacuated the base in part of extending the security perimeter, leaving behind two patriotic missile batteries and about 44 soldiers.

From the troops they left to defend the base, the oldest was a 28 -year -old captain.

Caine said the group heard “talk” of the imminent attack in the oppressive heat and were told to make sure that their missile batteries point to the north. Iran began throwing missiles of short and medium reach, which led the soldiers to unleash the “round after round” patriotic missiles of their boats.

Caine called the operation “the most large individual patriot commitment in the military history of the United States”, pointing out that the Qataris helped in defense.

“I’m not going to tell you how many rounds were shot,” said Caine, noting that the number was classified. “But it was a lot.”

Chris Boccia of ABC News contributed to this report.