This is the number one goal for Israel – heavily fortified, Iranian “Nuclear Mountain” spends his sleep from the eyelids of Israeli generals. Without the USA, it will not be destroyed
The plant is built deep underground in the mountains. If it remains intact, the main goal of the risky operation “the resulting lion” will not be achieved – regardless of the fact that Israel has already eliminated a large amount of Iranian weapons and many generals.
For Tehran, the facility in Ford symbolizes the desire to protect the nuclear program, designed to accumulate a sufficient number of centrifuges and highly enriched uranium for potential nuclear weapon production, and then survive the frontal attack.
“Ford is an alpha and omega of the Iranian nuclear program,” says Behnam Ben Taleblu, an older researcher at the American Think Tank Foundation for Defense of Democracy.
The problem is that in fact The facility can only be destroyed with bunkers that destroy rockets With a mass of 12 tons, which hit 60 meters underground. At least two such rockets would be needed to destroy the facility in Fordo.
Israel, however, does not have them. Israelis also lacks strategic bombers that would be needed to transport huge rockets that destroy bunkers.
The USA has both of these types of weapons – and within reaching the flight of the Iran aircraft. Israel needs either the help of the US to destroy the plant or exceptional tactical brilliance. According to reports, Israel is already bombing the object in Fordo, but not enough to destroy it. However, the nuclear plant in Natanz was seriously damaged – but according to experts it was an easier goal.
What happens if the US does not help? Experts say that Israel may try to recreate the effect of a powerful explosion of bombs that destroy bunkers through repetitive bombing, reminiscent of “drilling” in search of fortifications. This would be much less risky than a special mission with the participation of soldiers who would directly attacked the object.
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Precedent – although on a much smaller scale – took place in September 2024, when Israeli elite troops blew up an underground rocket factory in Syria. At night they entered the country (then under the dictatorship of Assad), placed the explosive and detonated it, blowing up the factory into the air. The whole operation lasted only two hours.
Conflicting signals behind the scenes
Nevertheless, Israel seems to hope that the Fordo facility can be destroyed with the help of the US. According to the well -informed reporter Barak Ravid from “Axios”, the Israelis asked the Trump government for help, so far unsuccessfully. To date, Trump did not want to get involved and is afraid that Iran will take the US base in the Middle East.
A representative of the Israeli government said in an interview with the “Axios” news agency that the US can still take part in surgery. President Donald Trump was even to suggest this during a conversation with Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu a few days before the mission began. However, the White House clerk not only denied this information, but also stated that Trump said something completely the opposite.
Only Trump can stop the Iranian nuclear program
The leading Israeli expert Udi Evental believes that Israel's success depends largely on Trump. The key to this is the concession of the Iranian authorities in negotiations regarding the nuclear program – writes on platform X were the strategist of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Attache of intelligence in Washington. “Only a reliable threat on the part of America, the use of the huge military force of the USA – also against objects deep underground – can force Iran to conclude an acceptable nuclear agreement,” said the expert.
Evental sums up: “Only the United States has the strength to win a good nuclear agreement from Iran. Israel must agree with the US the terms of such an agreement and jointly strive to achieve it. However, returning to the negotiating table in order to reach a poor agreement would mean the defeat of the war started by Israel.”
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