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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Jonathan Yerushalmy and agencies

What is Iran’s Fordow nuclear site and why did Israel want a US strike?

A 2025 satellite image shows the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant, north-east of Qom, Iran.
A 2025 satellite image shows the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant, north-east of Qom, Iran. Photograph: 2025 Planet Labs PBC/AFP/Getty Images

President Donald Trump on Saturday said that a US attack on Iran’s three principal nuclear sites: Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow had led to the “obliteration” of its key enrichment facilities. Later Iranian media acknowledged part of the Fordow site had been “attacked by enemy strikes”.

“Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horrible destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility,” said Trump on Saturday night. “The strikes were a spectacular military success.”

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