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John T Psaropoulos

What is Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility that the US has bombed?

This satellite image, released on January 8, 2020, shows the above-ground portion of Iran's Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, northeast of Qom [Handout/Maxar Technologies via AFP]

The United States bombed three major Iranian nuclear facilities early on Sunday, with President Donald Trump claiming that they had been “totally obliterated”.

The targets included Iran’s main uranium enrichment site at Natanz, which Israel had also struck on June 13 at the start of its current bombing campaign on Iran; a nuclear complex in Isfahan that Israel had also hit previously, and Fordow, home to another facility where nuclear fuel can be purified.

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