The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant houses advanced centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium to high-grade purity. It presents a challenging target for Israel. The plant is located deep in the mountains of northern Iran, and it is believed that an effective attack would require bunker buster bombs. Israel does not have such ordinance nor the heavy bombers to deliver such a payload.
Israel targeted the site during its Friday attacks, but the IAEA said it was not impacted, and the IDF has not claimed any significant damage there. Iranian air defenses shot down an Israeli drone in the vicinity of the plant.
“If Fordow remains operational, Israel’s attacks may barely slow Iran’s path to the bomb,” James M. Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote on Friday. Acton said Israel might be able to collapse the entrance to the facility, but noted that destroying much more of the Fordow site would be a difficult task for Israel.
Pakistani ARY News reported the incident, claiming the ”Israeli strike on Fordow nuclear site triggers earthquake in Iran,” as did The Free Press Journal, Tempo News, and Money Control.
While it is unlikely that relatively small IAF bombs would trigger a geological event, there might be a more likely explanation. The prophets explicitly mention earthquakes and volcanoes as playing a role in the end of days, preparing the world by burning away impurities, as a crucible is used in metallurgy to purify metal.
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