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Old 20th June 2025 | 05:49
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From: troposphere
Originally Posted by jolihokistix
Recently a comment somewhere among all these threads caught my eye, that an official who went to observe the Fordow facility said it was 'about half a mile underground'.

We see the tunnel entrances in the satellite shot, so presumably a bomb (or multiple several bombs) would need to cover a circle 100 meters down and three quarters of a mile in radius from there, to be sure.
Hi jolihokistix it was the head of the IAEA , Rafael Grossi, who claimed that he had been to sites in Iran 'many times'
(he did not identify which sites) and that you went down a spiral tunnel until you were 'half a mile underground'.

Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told The Financial Times that, “The most sensitive things are half a mile underground (about 800 meter) — I have been there many times,” adding, “To get there you take a spiral tunnel down, down, down.”
https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/h...ns-iaea-chief/
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