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Only the US military can take out Iran’s ‘most dangerous’ nuclear site

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President Donald Trump has refused to say whether the U.S. will use direct military force against Iran to stop it from getting a nuclear weapon, but one top security expert is sounding the alarm that taking out Iran’s nuclear threat «is a job only the U.S. can do.»
Israel launched a series of strikes against Iran beginning overnight on Thursday, and according to the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the Natanz nuclear facility’s underground structures, some 36 feet underground, did see «direct impact» from the strikes, though the extent of damage remains unclear.
However, Israel did not strike the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant – which is believed to be capable of producing a nuclear warhead in as little as two to three days, according to the Institute for Science and International Security – likely because Israel does not possess the military capabilities it would take to strike the Fordow facility, which is reported to be up to 300 feet underground.
A map shows the location of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which is buried up to 300 feet underground and deemed Iran’s «most dangerous» nuclear site. (Muhammed Ali Yigit/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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«Fordow is not the only remaining important nuclear facility, but it’s the most dangerous,» Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital. «Destroying it from the air is a job only the U.S. can do.»
The Fordow nuclear facility is believed to be Iran’s most heavily protected nuclear site, built deep into mountain bedrock and divided into two enrichment halls capable of holding some 3,000 centrifuges.
The only way to penetrate this facility may be by using a 30,000-pound bomb, known as the «bunker buster,» a GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) specifically designed to penetrate deeply buried targets, though even this capability is estimated to have a reach of some 200 feet, according to publicly available information.

An Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber performs a flyover at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, on Oct. 25, 2015. ((AP Photo/Mark Almond, File))
Dubowitz explained that to «inflict real damage» more than just bunker-busting munitions are needed, including «stealth delivery platforms like the B-2 Spirit bomber to penetrate advanced air defenses and deliver the MOP» as well as precision Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) «to ensure you’re not just damaging outer entrances or fake decoys.»
«Only the United States possesses the full spectrum,» he told Fox News Digital. Israel, despite its unmatched regional capability and world-class Air Force, does not yet have the MOP or the platforms to deliver it.

An infographic with a satellite image from Maxar on June 15, 2025 shows damage to the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the center of Iran after Israel’s strike. (CLEA PECULIER,VALENTINA BRESCHI/AFP via Getty Images)
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«It’s F-35I Adirs and F-15I Ra’ams can inflict serious damage – but penetrating Fordow fully remains beyond current Israeli capability without U.S. cooperation or creative alternatives like internal sabotage or specialized ordnance,» he added.
Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to tout the U.S. military’s capabilities, saying, «We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’
«Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA,» he added.
The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about whether the president is considering a direct hit on Iranian soil, though he has repeatedly said Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and on Monday issued an ominous warning and said, «everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran.»
Earlier on Monday, the president told reporters he «didn’t want to talk about it» when asked what it would take for the U.S. to get «directly involved» in the Israel-Iran conflict.
However, he left the G7 meeting in Canada one day early to address the ongoing conflict and told reporters aboard Air Force One that he is looking for a «real end» to the conflict.
«I’m not looking at a ceasefire. We’re looking at better than a ceasefire,» he said, adding, «I’m not too much in the mood to negotiate.»
Trump is expected to be in the Situation Room today, but any upcoming attack by the U.S. or Israel on Iran remains unconfirmed.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while flying aboard Air Force One en route from Calgary, Canada, to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, late Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told «Fox and Friends» on Tuesday that «as we speak, our planes, our air force is acting in Iran right now,» adding, «we have very impressive results on the ground.»
«We will continue, and you will see more results. But you know when you look at the side of Israel and compare[d] to the side Iran, we are a tiny country…9 million people compared to 90 million Iranians,» he added. «So, we have limited capabilities, but we punch high.»
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«No sabemos cuánto se dañaron las instalaciones nucleares de Irán, pero lo que no se eliminó es su programa», dice un experto argentino en armas atómicas

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Anxious Republicans turn to Trump amid divisions over ‘big, beautiful bill’

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Republicans in the House and Senate are anxiously watching whether President Donald Trump will take a more aggressive approach in corralling GOP lawmakers in favor of his «big, beautiful bill.»
«President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, isn’t he? I think it’s incumbent upon him to make sure everybody in the Senate understands that this is a signature piece of legislation that essentially 77 million Americans voted for,» Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital.
The Senate is working through a massive piece of legislation advancing Trump’s agenda on tax, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt — which the president has said he wants on his desk by the Fourth of July.
Trump has been pushing Republicans on the bill in public, addressing it at back-to-back events on Thursday and Friday while also posting on his Truth Social platform.
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President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to get his bill over the line by the Fourth of July. (Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images)
Congressional leaders have said they’ve been in near-constant contact with Trump or his White House staff about the legislation. Indeed, numerous White House officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Vice President JD Vance, to push Senate Republicans to stay on course.
But some House Republicans want him to be as forceful as he was when their chamber passed the bill by just one vote in May. Trump summoned multiple groups of Republicans to the White House on several occasions in the lead-up to that vote, and even made a rare trip to Capitol Hill to gin up support within the House GOP.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital that when the House was going through the motions of advancing the mammoth legislation, it «looked all but impossible» to get it across the finish line.
But it was because of Trump, he said, that the bill succeeded.
«He’s our closer in the bullpen right now,» he said. «His arm is getting warmed up, and we’ll bring him in here in the ninth inning, and he’s going to throw heat. And so far, he’s pitched a no-hitter.»
It’s worth noting that several senators who have expressed concerns about the bill have spoken individually with Trump.

Sen. Steve Daines said Trump was Republicans’ ‘closer in the bullpen.’ (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
But Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital showed varying degrees of enthusiasm when asked whether the president should repeat the intense involvement he had in the House.
When asked by Fox News Digital whether it’s time for the president to get involved, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas., said, «That’s up to the White House. It’s up to the president.»
But Roy added, «I think the Senate needs to deliver, and I think the Senate ought to make good on the agreement that the majority leader had with us and with the speaker to work with us to achieve that level of spending cuts.»
Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Penn., said Trump is «always involved, so he’ll stay involved because we do want to get it done by July 4th.»
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., said he was not being kept aware of how involved Trump was, but said the president’s deal-making skills would likely be needed.
«I mean, I think it’s gonna take that type of horsepower to kind of bring everybody together,» Fitzgerald said.
But some Republicans in the upper chamber are resistant.
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Senator Rick Scott said, ‘I’m not voting for something unless I know what I’m voting on.’ (Reuters)
«It doesn’t matter what he says, of course not,» Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. «I mean, I’m not voting for something unless I know what I’m voting on.»
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., wouldn’t say whether he believed that Trump should put a finger on the scales more. But he told Fox News Digital that he was appreciative of the effort that Thune and Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, had put into getting feedback from Senate Republicans, but said that at a certain point, lawmakers just needed to vote on the bill.
«We have cussed and discussed this bill for a long, long time, and at some point you move from careful, rational deliberation into the foothills of jackassery,» Kennedy said. «And that’s where we are now. It’s time to vote. If people are unhappy, they can offer amendments.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
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La República Democrática del Congo y Ruanda firmaron un acuerdo de paz, con la mediación de Estados Unidos

La República Democrática del Congo y Ruanda firmaron este viernes un acuerdo de paz -facilitado por Estados Unidos- que intentará poner fin a décadas de mortíferos combates en el este del Congo, a la par que buscará brindar al gobierno estadounidense y a empresas del país acceso a minerales críticos en la región.
El pacto, alcanzado tras meses de negociaciones, marca un paso significativo en los esfuerzos por frenar la violencia que ha devastado al este congoleño y que involucra a más de 100 grupos armados, entre ellos facciones respaldadas por Ruanda, provocando millones de muertes desde la década de 1990.
Precisamente, el documento suscrito prevé disposiciones sobre la protección de la integridad territorial, una prohibición de hostilidades y medidas concretas como la desmovilización, el desarme y la integración condicional de grupos armados no estatales.
De acuerdo con los términos del acuerdo, las partes se comprometen a respetar las fronteras internacionales y cesar acciones militares entre sí y contra sus ciudadanos y bienes. Además, se establecen mecanismos de verificación y seguimiento orientados a prevenir incursiones transfronterizas y el resurgimiento de la violencia, tradicionalmente alimentada por disputas étnicas, históricos resentimientos, y el control de los ricos yacimientos minerales de la región.
La ministra de Relaciones Exteriores del Congo, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, celebró la noticia y aprovechó el momento, junto a su par ruandés, Olivier Nduhungirehe, para evocar la magnitud de la tragedia humanitaria vivida por la población congoleña.
“Algunas heridas sanarán, pero nunca desaparecerán por completo. Aquellos que han sufrido más están observando. Esperan que este acuerdo sea respetado, y no podemos fallarles”, dijo, en referencia al historial de acuerdos previos fracasados, así como al impacto profundo y sostenido de las hostilidades en la niñez, las comunidades desplazadas, sectores rurales, y en la estructura social y económica local.
Por su parte, Nduhungirehe valoró el potencial positivo de esta cooperación y sostuvo que “el crecimiento compartido y la cooperación transfronteriza desbloquearán dividendos tangibles para ambos países”.
“Debemos reconocer que hay una gran incertidumbre en nuestra región y más allá, porque muchos acuerdos anteriores no se han implementado, y no hay duda de que el camino que nos espera no será fácil. Pero con el apoyo continuo de Estados Unidos y otros socios, creemos que se ha alcanzado un punto de inflexión”, sumó el canciller ruandés.

El secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, también se expresó tras el anuncio y describió el acontecimiento como “un momento importante tras 30 años de guerra”, enfatizando no solo en las aspiraciones de paz de los pueblos afectados por el conflicto, sino también en los intereses internacionales involucrados en la estabilidad regional y el acceso de su país a los recursos estratégicos.
En tanto, el presidente Donald Trump destacó durante una conferencia de prensa que gracias a su intervención en “una de las peores guerras que cualquier persona haya visto” logró “reunirlos (a los bandos enfrentados) y negociarlo (el acuerdo)”.
“Y no solo eso, estamos obteniendo para Estados Unidos muchos de los derechos minerales del Congo”, sumó, en referencia al nuevo caudal de minerales críticos para sectores tecnológicos claves al que tendrá acceso en adelante, en medio de la carrera con China por la influencia y la explotación del continente africano.
Durante las negociaciones, la participación de Qatar también resultó clave; el país árabe del Golfo ofreció respaldo logístico y político para acercar las posiciones de las partes enfrentadas, a petición de la Casa Blanca y otras entidades internacionales.
(Con información de AP)
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