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AMERICA'S "HAMMER"! Everything we didn't know
2025-06-23 14:11:51 / BOTA
Seven B-2 Spirit bombers, 125 fighter jets, about thirty tanker aircraft, a submarine, twenty Tomahawk missiles (75 missiles in total), and a deception operation with American aircraft flying both to the Middle East and from the Eastern and Pacific fronts.
Thus, Washington planned and then carried out the attack – the first in history – on three Iranian nuclear facilities: Isfahan, Fordow and Natanz. The plan had been developed for weeks and all the units had been moved in advance to be activated immediately as soon as the order was given by the White House.
This is the first attack using 14-ton bunker buster bombs – GBU-57 MOP – deep-penetration weapons capable of penetrating rocks and hitting depths of up to 100 meters, with the aim of destroying the uranium-enriching centrifuges at Fordow.
Shortly after midnight Friday, seven B-2 bombers (first deployed since the September 11 attacks in Afghanistan) took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Other aircraft flew across the Pacific in the opposite direction to distract the enemy, according to Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who spoke at a Pentagon news conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The flight to the targets takes 18 hours, during which the B-2s are not refueled. Some of the tanker planes took off from European bases that had arrived there days earlier.
When the strategic bombers approached Iranian airspace, a US submarine positioned in the Persian Gulf launched over 20 Tomahawk missiles towards the Isfahan facility – the logistical heart of the Iranian nuclear program, where enriched uranium was stored.
Fighter jets also took to the skies to escort the B-2s and protect them from Iranian air defenses. Caine noted that (although it has not been independently confirmed) some of the American planes shot down radars in the early stages of the attack. And as with the Israeli strikes ten days earlier, the Islamic Republic was caught off guard.
This time, there was no chance to react. After two days of conflict, the Israeli air force had managed to take control of the airspace, and within ten days, the missile bases, launch pads, and Iranian integrated air defense system were largely disabled. The premise of the American attack rests precisely on this preparatory work done by the Israelis, says Caine.
The operation – codenamed “Midnight Hammer” – is entirely “US-managed.” The Israelis were notified only to have clear airspace and avoid accidents. “Only a limited group of people in Washington were aware of the plans and the timing,” Caine said.
During the day, the White House clarified that the operation was aimed only at denying Iran the ability to have nuclear weapons, and not at regime change. But in a post on his Truth Social network, Trump expressed himself differently: “It is not politically correct to talk about regime change, but if the current regime in Tehran is not capable of ‘making Iran great again,’ then why not have a new regime?”
All the facilities were hit between 6:40 and 7:05 a.m. (Washington time, in Iran between 2:40 and 3:05 a.m. Sunday). Fourteen of the bombs were GBU-57 MOPs. The first ones were dropped on Fordow. Surveillance from Iranian airspace lasts about an hour, and only when the B-2s were in a safe position was the US Congress notified of the launch of the attack. According to Hegseth: “We respected the law.”
The Pentagon chief spoke about a preliminary assessment of the damage. “It’s still too early to know exactly where we’re going,” he said, referring to satellite images of Fordow from the Maxar company. According to preliminary data, the “hole” created by the GBU-57 on the surface of the mountain is visible. Hegseth stressed that the goal was to eliminate “the regime’s remaining capabilities to enrich uranium.” According to Pentagon sources, all the main centers of the regime’s nuclear program “have not been completely destroyed.”
However, Pentagon sources, a few hours later, told the New York Times that the Fordow complex "has been severely, irreversibly damaged."
Republican JD Vance called the attacks a “slowdown” of the nuclear program, not a destruction. Rubio, the secretary of state, raised the alarm: “We haven’t known for days where Iran’s enriched uranium is. Shortly before the attack, word spread that it might have been taken to a safe and secret location, but we still don’t have reliable confirmation.”
The director of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, announced that on Sunday morning “no signal was recorded” from the monitors installed at the Iranian facilities. He said that the recording system had not shown any signs of life either. Now, the UN control over the Iranian nuclear program, in its “protective” phase, has been terminated. At this moment, Iran is officially in the dark, and as a result, more dangerous than ever. / bota.al
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