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US is the only country with a bomb that could reach Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, Israeli ambassador says
From CNN’s Jessie Yeung
The US is the only country that possesses the kind of bomb required to strike Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear site, said Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, in an interview with Merit TV on Monday.
The Fordow plant is buried deep in the mountains near Qom, in northern Iran, and houses advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium up to high grades of purity. Its exact depth is not publicly known, but some estimates place it at 80 to 90 meters deep.
“In order for Fordow to be taken out by a bomb from the sky, the only country in the world that has that bomb is the United States. And that’s a decision the United States has to take, whether or not it chooses to actually pursue that course,” Leiter said.
But, he added, that wasn’t the only option:
“There are other ways of dealing with Fordow.”
He also appeared to warn of a military operation later this week that would strike Iran hard.
“When the dust settles, you’re going to see some surprises Thursday night and Friday that will make the beeper operation almost seem simple,” he said. He was referring to the attack Israel carried out in Lebanon in September, which targeted pagers and walkie-talkies used by members of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Explosives were hidden in the devices, killing at least 37, including children, and wounding nearly 3,000, many of them civilian bystanders.