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00:00This is an overview of the Fordow underground complex in Iran on the 20th of June, Friday.
00:08And this is the same overview on the 22nd.
00:12The images are an indication of the scale of the damage caused by the U.S. mission Operation Midnight Hammer,
00:18which also targeted Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz and in Isfahan.
00:24The Pentagon says U.S. forces employed approximately 75 precision-guided weapons,
00:30including more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles and 14 bunker buster bombs.
00:38Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction.
00:48These are the satellite images showing the before and after of the scale of the damage caused by the U.S. strikes on the Isfahan site
00:56and here at the nuclear site near Natanz.
01:02The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi,
01:07told the U.S. Security Council that it will hold an emergency meeting of its governors on Monday.
01:12Craters are visible at the Fordow.
01:14He said the agency was not in a position to confirm the scale of the damage at Fordow.
01:20At this time, no one, including the IAEA, is in a position to assess the underground damage at Fordow.
01:34That comment was echoed by David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security,
01:40who says the goal was for the bunker buster weapons to destroy infrastructure at Fordow,
01:45with the assumption nuclear material had been removed.
01:48The nuclear material has probably moved away.
01:50We don't know if it got all the way down.
01:52I mean, we feel that a good chance the whole site, the inner structure was destroyed.
02:00But we'd like to get some confirmation of that before we say it's gone.
02:08An advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini said on Sunday
02:12that the country still had its stockpile of enriched uranium.

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