Iranian construction crews are busy at work on the surface of the uranium enrichment facility in Fordow five days after the US nailed the underground fortress with 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs, new satellite images showed.
Crews operated excavators, bulldozers, and other construction vehicles near the craters and punctures in the ground above the nuclear facility caused by the GBU-57 bunker buster bombs dropped by American B-2s last weekend, according to images captured by Maxar Technologies on Friday.
Satellite images released Friday show a flurry of activity on the surface above Fordow’s uranium enrichment facility where workers are beginning to build a new road. Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies/AFP via Getty ImagesOther images showed apparent construction crews building access roads to the facility and rebuilding the damaged dirt road that led to the bunker laboratory that was targeted by the US as part of Israel’s conflict with the Islamic Republic.
Satellite images from before the attack showed similar construction activity on the surface of Fordow in the 24-hour period prior to the bunker-busters piercing the desert surface.
Those vehicles appeared to be moving unidentified contents out of the facility to a location roughly half-a-mile away.
Heavy machinery is being used at the site where several 30,000 pound bombs were dropped last Saturday. Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies/AFP via Getty ImagesOfficials have stated that there has been no nuclear fallout or contamination as a result of the strikes.
Fordow’s centrifuges are currently ‘no longer operational’ according to the UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency.
“It has suffered enormous damage,” IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told Radio France Internationale on Thursday.
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“There is very, very, very considerable damage,” Grossi said.
The extent of the destruction — and the amount of time the Iranian regime’s program has been set back — have yet to be officially determined.
The United States started designing the GBU-57 bunker busters 15 years ago just to reach Iran’s Fordow enrichment facility. Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Trump has said the facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan have all been “obliterated” and set back years — dismissing a leaked preliminary report from the Defense Intelligence Agency that suggested there was “low confidence” the Iranian nuclear program had been set back by the massive strike.
Following that leak, CIA Director John Radcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both backed up Trump and stated the strikes “severely damaged” Iran’s facilities.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth further pushed back against CNN and the New York Times for “breathlessly” reporting the leaked preliminary “low-confidence” assessment of the consequential strike.
Images released by the Pentagon showed the cavernous entry point of a bunker buster bomb on the surface of Fordow. Department of DefenseTrump fumed about the leaks on social media, writing, “The Fake News should fire everyone involved in this Witch Hunt, and apologize to our great warriors, and everyone else!”
The Department of Justice is now seeking the origin of the leak and has promised to come down on the leaker with the full force of the law.






