U.S. General Reveals How Many Years The U.S. Has Been Bringing The "Midnight Hammer" Over Fordo

• 28.06.2025, 10:35

Washington has been preparing for a missile strike on Iran since Barack Obama's presidency.

The U.S. has been preparing to bomb Iran for a long time. Specifically, the Fordow underground storage bunker had been monitored for nearly 16 years. Washington was preparing to launch a preemptive strike if there were signs that Iran had developed nuclear weapons.

This was the subject of a report by the head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Kane, according to The Washington Post.

"You would not erect a bunker deep in the mountains for civilian purposes," the 56-year-old general reasoned.

The U.S. military indicated that Fordow's bunker complex and underground uranium enrichment storage facility had been monitored since 2009, with a team of individuals from the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency handling the project.

Analyzing such a target as Fordo, it should be remembered that its main part is located 96 km from Tehran in the mountains near the city of Qom at a depth of 80-90 meters.

Neither President Donald Trump nor the head of the U.S. Defense Department Pete Hegseth expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the operation, at the same time they were outraged by the leak of information to the media. It was the latter that prompted General Kane's report.