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IRAN: THE TARGETS AND WHAT OF THE MISSING ENRICHMENT? DAVID ALBRIGHT, FDD

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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IRAN: THE TARGETS AND WHAT OF THE MISSING ENRICHMENT? DAVID ALBRIGHT, FDD
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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. It's a pleasure to welcome someone I've depended

0:08.8

upon for years about the suspect Iranian nuclear weapons program, David Albright, the president

0:14.8

and founder, chief executive of the Institute for Science and International Security.

0:20.1

David, a very good evening to you.

0:22.1

The question of bomb damage, I am understanding that it takes some time.

0:27.2

It's a bit of an art form to do it from the air, which is what we've seen so far.

0:33.3

Nonetheless, there are things to say about the sites that have been struck by the Israeli

0:39.2

Air Force and then the U.S. Air Force.

0:42.0

We begin with Fordo, the mountain, the nuclear mountain.

0:46.2

There are images that are reproduced routinely everywhere of holes in the mountain,

0:53.5

three holes bunched and three holes bunched.

0:56.0

What are we looking at, David, and what can we measure about what's down underneath?

1:01.0

Good evening to you, David.

1:03.0

Good evening to you.

1:05.0

The poles are from these massive ordinance penetrators, and it looks like 12 were used in total, in a sense,

1:16.4

you use one after another.

1:18.5

And what we've found from satellite imagery and our information about Fordow is that

1:23.1

they found two vulnerabilities in the mountain, one of which is a ventilation shaft that's absolutely

1:30.3

critical to the operation of the enrichment plant that goes from the surface all the way down

1:35.0

to the facility. And three of them, three holes are right aligned with the ventilation shaft.

1:44.0

There was the other three holes are aligned with some kind of structure that was on the surface.

1:50.1

And we don't really know what that is, but it looks to be a vulnerability.

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