Keane on Iran’s Fordow: It Has Considerable Amount of Rock, It Dissipates Some of the Blast Because It’s Rock

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KEANE: "This is a challenging target. Certainly the people involved with this know this. We have been looking at fordo for years. The bunker buster was designed to go deep but in a building like structure with cement that is being reinforced. We are going deep into a mountain structure and it has considerable amount of rock in it and because it’s rock and not a cement structure, I’m not an engineer but they have advised me on it. What happens is it dissipates some of the blast effect because it’s rock and it’s not solid in the way that cement structure would be and can focus the blast much more and be considerably more destructive so it’s not without its challenges. In dealing with this and that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be multiple bombs put on to bring it to that level of construction. If you really wanted a guarantee to destroy it I mean you could conduct a raid on it and then physically secure the site and dismantle and blow the thing up. The Israelis certainly may have a plan to do just that. If the United States is not going to help them. Obviously there is considerably more risks with troops on the ground. Insert them and get them out, how much time does it take to do the damage? A lot more risk involved in an operation associated with that. The Israelis also may have already and if they haven’t when it comes to fordo they can’t go deep and blow it up but they should be able to take out the power grid that supports it and the ventilation system that supports it. They did damage like that back in 2020s. One of their Covid operations that they don’t talk about but it’s been out in the public since. So there are options that the Israelis have been None of those options are as good as the option that we have. And so I think that is the most favored option."