Explosive Satellite Images Reveal Fordow’s Secret Moves Before U.S. Strike—Inside the High‑Stakes Showdown Over Iran’s Nuclear Future
Fordow lies beneath roughly 90 metres of limestone outside Qom and houses Iran’s most advanced uranium-enrichment cascades, with enrichment reaching 60% by June 2025 per the IAEA. Fordow was exposed by Western intelligence in 2009, had activity frozen under the JCPOA from 2013 to 2015, and restarted enrichment from 2019 to 2024, reaching 60% in 2025. Commercial satellites from Planet Labs, Maxar, and Airbus imaged Fordow almost hourly in mid‑June 2025. On 19 June 2025, new ventilation stacks appeared on roof section C of Fordow, signaling possible underground welding work. On 20 June 2025, a convoy of five flat‑beds and
