Looks like Iran was given a heads up

[Mr.WeRP]

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-nuclear-strikes-us-donald-trump-fordow-satellite-imagery-unusual-activity-2088918

Satellite imagery captured ahead of U.S. strikes on three major Iranian nuclear sites showed "unusual" movement around the entrance to Iran's Fordow enrichment facility.

Pictures taken on Thursday and Friday showed "unusual truck and vehicular activity" close to the entrance of the underground Fordow complex south of Tehran, satellite imagery firm Maxar said late on Saturday.

My money is on Russia. It is likely they have infiltrated the top layers of the admin and certainly several Republican representatives and senators, who were given advanced notice of the strike.

[Ocelot II]

1. Maybe some Iranian general got added to Kegbreath's Signal chat group.

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[liberalla]

19. I hear it's easy to get on... Sometimes random journalists are just added on!

Iran Says Nuclear Sites Evacuated Before US Strikes

Iran Says Nuclear Sites Evacuated Before US Strikes

"The Iranian nuclear sites that President Donald Trump says were struck by the United States were reportedly evacuated ahead of the strikes, Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency reported.

"IRIB's political deputy says that Iran had evacuated the three nuclear sites some while ago," Mehr reported.

Trump said in a post on Truth Social Saturday that the U.S. had struck Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan.

"We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space," Trump said, adding, "A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow."

[Lovie777]

28. Oh shit..............

you are on it.

[unblock]

3. Or maybe it was Donnie going around saying hey I might bomb Iran.

Maybe they got a heads up with more details, but really, it doesn't take special intel to think the nuclear sites might be targets....

[Blues Heron]

4. Tulsi?

[JI7]

5. It could be Qatar also

[rampartd]

6. just wondering....

shouldn't some jr officer at the pentagon or cia have seen that same photo and brought it to his superior's attn?

[FarPoint]

7. tRump himself spoke to Putin...

Putin told Iran.....nuclear uranium stuff moved... Putin gains distraction time from global attention and support for Ukraine.

Other countries like russia who have lots of nuclear weapons etc will give it to Iran...for a price....

Now, Iran will make a deal...tRump needs a deal..... It's so hard to even type/ talk about this obnoxious US regime.

There will be some level of retaliation but a deal will surface...

I want the truth to rise to the top this time, quickly.... we all are being played.

[FarPoint]

21. Absolutely...

We have the manchurian candadate/pres. with friends....

[Hugin]

22. People think I am kidding when I call him the Manchurian Cantelope...

As usual, I am not.

[TommyT139]

8. Taco is predictable.

[av8rdave]

9. My guess is that you're correct. However...

It wouldn’t have been difficult for the Iranian government to figure out what would be likely targets in the event of an attack. trump’s and Bibi’s saber rattling was certainly enough to give them ample warning.

[RockRaven]

10. Or some of them are capable of a modicum of rational strategic thought, just like you and me.

They aren't extragalactic alien lifeforms with inscrutable thought processes after all.

A well known uranium enrichment facility is obviously a likely target.

[W_HAMILTON]

23. The issue at hand here is not the target...

...but that actual strikes would be coming this time and it wasn't just more saber-rattling that Trump and Netanyahu had been doing for years.

[msongs]

11. maybe the attack was moved up from 2 weeks when they saw Iran scramming with the goods

[C Moon]

12. moron trump was talking about it a couple days before, but he said 2 weeks. Iran was smart enough to act immediately.

trump has loose lips.

[NJCher]

13. 2 days

2 weeks in dementia time.

[vapor2]

41. Actually, you have a point

as those with dementia have no concept of time

[iemanja]

14. The Israeli air strikes probably clued them in.

[AloeVera]

33. Lol.

Probably moved them the first day.

[IzzaNuDay]

15. You know what they say about loose lips sink ships!

This administration’s blatant disregard for securing classified information is horrifying. So I wouldn’t put it past anyone in the administration to have leaked the Iran bombing details to someone without a need to know.

[CentralMass]

16. This adminstration is such a crooked immoral bunch that it could be anyone.

[Captain Zero]

36. Like The Russian HR guy who vettes all WH personnel?

Nt.

[BurnDoubt]

17. Can't blame the Dems. KKKrasnov included Vladdy-O, but excluded Democrats.

It looks like a pattern unfolding here.
I wonder what it could be?
Did he de-fund the Leak Police yet? They're un-needed now that all the principles are in-the-loop on KKKeggy's phone.

[DFW]

18. The Boston Globe said the Congressional Republicans were not informed in advance after all

They were apparently the first to be informed, but not prior to the strike. The article acknowledged reports to the contrary, but said they were both premature and in error.

If I had to guess the identity of anyone giving the Iranians advance notice, I would suspect either someone in the Defense Department or one of our “intelligence” services. Since we weren’t going to initiate a land invasion, we did not want to risk setting off some kind of Chernobyl contamination of a wide expanse of Iranian territory. The idea was to send a message, not render a third of their country uninhabitable. Now the Republicans can all strut around, proclaiming “Mission Accomplished,” which will fly only as long as it is understood that many of our people have wildly differing understandings of just what the real mission was.

[woodsprite]

34. What about that 22-yo "Intelligence, counter terrorism" grocery clerk

I’m willing to bet a quarter that he has Russian contacts.

[OnDoutside]

39. Normal times, quite possibly, however bearing in mind the high likelihood Putin did have knowledge of this, it occurred

to me as to the question of Who Benefits ?

Certainly Netanyahu benefits, but I think it would take more than that for Trump.

My suspicion is that if the Iranians start screwing around with all that gulf oil, it's going to push the price back up, and Russia benefits hugely, as they were looking to be in serious trouble.

There doesn't appear to be any other major beneficiary from this stupid act.

[DFW]

43. Ultimately, I don't think even Netanyahu benefits much

If this turns out to indeed have been more for show than anything else, and Iran suffered no truly crippling damage, the Israelis, many if whom are hardened cynics at this point, will figure that the whole exercise was more for Trump’s entertainment than anything else. Maybe to make up for a parade that was such a sham that even Trump was able to figure it out.

[OnDoutside]

44. He wouldn't be benefitting more than Putin certainly, if the oil price spikes.

[Ruby the Liberal]

24. Honestly, there was enough sabre rattling out of Israel

after the initial attacks that moving out assets was probably a no brainer.

It will be interesting find out where the backup site is - and who all partnering with Iran knows or has access to it.

[Johnny2X2X]

25. This is theater

We gave them a heads up so we could put on a show without Iran retaliating with all out war.

The powers need Iran to remain the boogeyman.

[bearsfootball516]

26. Maybe, but Trump also announced that he was considering bombing the sites.

That was all they needed to start moving materials.

[Walleye]

27. US president trusts the dictator of Russia, more than elected Democratic representatives in Congress. Bottom line.

[Lovie777]

29. Ditto...............

[Historic NY]

31. Now where would come from Russian assets embedded in the administration

at the highest levels? Perhaps Donald's truth social, which has been hacked. He does like to brag.

[Johonny]

32. The whole administration runs around with burner phones

And use signal chat. Neither is secure.

[Captain Zero]

35. Having that Russian HR vetting guy in the WH?

Genius move by Putin.

There are so many report lines back to The Kremlin.

Who's going to figure it out ? Maybe the guys who installed the flagpoles or the ones who dug up the Rose Garden?

[taxi]

37. Were Iran and Russia given a wonderful gift?

The world will never know what happened to 400kg of highly enriched uranium. Was it destroyed? Was it transferred within Iran? Was it sold to another country or group?
How and when will we know?

[MiHale]

38. Trump's "win" in the election tipped them off...

Even Kamala was warning us that he’d get us into a war.

They listened…some of us did…most apparently didn’t.

Smart money says they were preparing for this since January…then he couldn’t shut up.

[Kid Berwyn]

40. Friends do favors for friends, especially those to whom they owe money.

[vapor2]

42. Why does he wear a US flag pin?? He HATES America

[Mountainguy]

45. Maybe through Russia...

But the whole thing was a show. Trump admin likely warned Tehran through back channels.

Not the first time