Satellite images show activity at Iran's Fordo nuclear facility before U.S. air strikes

Maxar Technologies, a U.S. defence contractor, released outer imagery connected Sunday showing enactment astatine Iran's Fordo atomic installation anterior to U.S. aerial strikes.

The images of the secretive plant, which were collected connected Thursday and Friday, picture motortruck and conveyance enactment adjacent to the entranceway of the underground subject complex.

Located 300 feet nether a upland and reinforced by layers of concrete, Iran's fortress-like Fordo installation is situated to the southbound of Iran's superior of Tehran. It is the country's astir hardened and precocious atomic site.

Alongside atomic facilities astatine Natanz and Isfahan, Fordo was the people of U.S. aerial strikes connected Saturday. Trump described the incursion arsenic a "spectacular subject success" that "completely obliterated" Iran's cardinal enrichment facilities.

The U.S. president's assertion astir the effect of the cognition could not beryllium independently confirmed. The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran's atomic information halfway had reported nary radiation oregon contamination astatine the atomic centers pursuing the attacks, arsenic of Sunday greeting London time.