New satellite images show work at Iran’s Fordow nuclear site after US bombing | The Independent Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Not nowYes pleaseUS EditionChangeSupport NowSupport NowMenuMoreThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inNew satellite images show work at Iran’s Fordow nuclear site after US bombingImages from Maxar Technologies show construction vehicles including an excavator near one of the shafts, which was struck with US bunker buster bombs last weekMonday 30 June 2025 10:27 BSTCommentsRelated: Why Trump and Israel have only encouraged Iran to go nuclearYour support helps us to tell the storyRead moreFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. 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We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.Your support makes all the difference.Read moreSatellite pictures taken in the week after the show activity at the Fordow facility, which claimed was “completely and totally obliterated” in last week’s attack.Images from Maxar Technologies show construction vehicles including an excavator near one of the shafts at the which was struck by on 22 June.Other images show that the bombardment had completely caved in entrance tunnels to the site.open image in gallerySatellite images show construction vehicles near a shaft at Fordow (Maxar Technologies)The images show several vehicles parked around the facility, as questions remain about just how much of Iran’s nuclear capability was obliterated.The US Secretary of Defense , after a found the attack had likely only set Iran’s nuclear programme back by a couple of months.Speaking at the Pentagon alongside the chairman of the late last week, said “anyone with two eyes” would recognise the damage done to Iran’s facilities.“First reports are almost always wrong. They're almost always incomplete,” he said, adding the facility had been completely “destroyed”.open image in galleryEntrance tunnels at Fordow appear totally caved in (Maxar Technologies)Hegseth cited several experts and other reports to back his claim up, including the Israeli Defence Force, the CIA director, US director of national intelligence. He also quoted Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson as saying “our nuclear institutions have been badly damaged, that’s for sure”. General Dan Caine said the bunker-buster bombs “went exactly where they were intended to go”.But on Sunday, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog suggested Tehran could get its nuclear programme . The International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi previously said Iran had told the watchdog it was planning to move its enriched uranium ahead of a suspected bomb attack, and that it was unclear whether that fuel had been destroyed in the bombardment."So some could have been destroyed as part of the attack, but some could have been moved," he said in an interview on Sunday.open image in galleryBut the UN’s nuclear watchdog said Iran could resume its programme within months (Maxar Technologies)Israel launched an attack on Iran earlier this month, saying was on the brink of developing nuclear weapons. It sparked a 12-day war, with Iran launching missiles at Israeli cities , before the US joined in with the nuclear site attacks.Mr Grossi said the strikes on sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan had significantly set back Iran's ability to convert and enrich uranium, but the country still has capacity."They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that," Grossi told CBS News in an interview."Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there," he added, according to the transcript of the interview.Western powers stress that Iran's nuclear advances provide it with an irreversible knowledge gain, suggesting that while losing experts or facilities may slow progress, the advances are permanent."Iran is a very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology," Grossi said. "So you cannot disinvent this. You cannot undo the knowledge that you have or the capacities that you have."With additional reporting from ReutersMore aboutJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesCommentsMost PopularPopular videosRead NextToday’s EditionIndependent en EspañolIndependent ArabiaIndependent TurkishIndependent PersianIndependent UrduThe StandardPuzzlesIndependent AdvertisingSyndicationWorking at The IndependentModern Slavery StatementThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in , Satellite Imagery Shows Iran at Work at Fordo Nuclear Site Amid competing assessments of how badly the enrichment facility was damaged in U.S. strikes, Iran appears to be making its own inspection., New satellite images show continuing work at Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment plant, which was struck by US B-2 bombers just over a week ago..