Construction activity visible at Iran’s bombed Fordo nuclear facilitypublished at 10:34 British Summer Time
Kayleen Devlin and Benedict Garman
BBC Verify
Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies shows heavy construction equipment operating at the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran – one of the sites targeted by the US military.
Images from 29 June show an excavator and crane at the top of a newly constructed access road close to an area targeted by the American bunker-busting bombs. Further down the mountainside, a bulldozer and lorry are visible.
Construction vehicles are also working at the entrance to the site and at a bombed building on the east side of the complex – both of which were damaged in Israeli strikes the day after the US attacks.
According to nuclear weapons expert David Albright, who analysed imagery of the same site taken on 28 June, the construction work may include backfilling the craters, carrying out engineering damage assessments and radiological sampling.
Following the US strikes President Donald Trump said they had “obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Friday that Iran could resume uranium enrichment “in a matter of months.”