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The US has bombed Iran’s Fordow nuclear bunker. This is what we know about Iran’s uranium enrichment facility

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IAEA inspectors were allowed into the facility in late 2009, where they were shown two halls, according to a 2019 report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).

The think tank is led by David Albright, a leading American physicist and nuclear weapons expert, who is also a former weapons inspector.

The report said one hall contained what one might expect for the enrichment of uranium for use in nuclear reactors, but the other hall was being stripped and modified at the time.

“These observations contributed to several inspectors, including ones who were experts in gas centrifuges, becoming suspicious that this hall was for the onward enrichment of uranium up to weapon-grade,” the report, authored by Mr Albright and two others, read.

“Of course, Iran denied any such work,” it said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-22/inside-iran-fordow-nuclear-bunker-bombed-by-us/105446636