“Like Absolute Butter”: Trump On How US Struck Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Site
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“Like Absolute Butter”: Trump On How US Struck Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Site
Bombs dropped by American B-2 Stealth Fighter aircraft went through Iran’s heavily-guarded Fordow facility. Fordow was known as the country’s most secretive and heavily protected site. Trump said that the bunker-buster bomb strikes reduced Fordow to “just thousands of tons of rock” He went on to say that a group of wealthy people had been found for TikTok, which faces a looming ban in the U.S. due to its China ties. He also said US trade talks with Canada will be stopped “until such time as they drop certain taxes”
Speaking to Fox News, Trump said, “They were trying to seal up the entrance to where the bomb would most likely go in and they did that. They were working on that and the bomb went through it like it was butter, like it was absolute butter.”
He added that the June 22 strikes on Iran’s three nuclear facilities – Fordow, Natanz and Ifsahan – “obliterated” the country’s nuclear program. Fordow was known as the country’s most secretive and heavily protected site, hidden beneath a mountain and designed to resist airstrikes and foreign interference.
Trump said that the bunker-buster bomb strikes reduced Fordow to “just thousands of tons of rock”. He went on to insist that highly-enriched uranium was not moved from the site before the attack, a claim made by Israeli officials to The New York Times.
“I think first it was very hard to do. It’s very dangerous to do. It’s very heavy, very, very heavy. It’s a very hard thing to do. Plus, we didn’t give much notice because they didn’t know we were coming until just then,” he said.
The strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites came as the Iran-Israel conflict continued to escalate, with the two countries strikes since June 13. The US claimed it had given Tehran an ultimatum to stop enriching uranium, the failure of which led to the strikes, that used high-end weaponry, including the dreaded GBU-57 bunker busters and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
While Trump said a day after the that Tehran’s nuclear program has been set back by decades, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium “in a matter of months”.
In Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” program, Trump also said US trade talks with Canada will be stopped “until such time as they drop certain taxes”.
He went on to say that a group of buyers had been found for TikTok, which faces a looming ban in the United States due to its China ties, adding he could name the purchasers in two weeks. “Very wealthy people. It’s a group of wealthy people,” the president said, without revealing more except to say he would make their identities known “in about two weeks.”