One week after multiple US airstrikes on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, engineering work appears to have resumed at both Fordow and Natanz.
New Maxar satellite images show Iranian engineers busily at work trying to reopen access to the Fordow facility, where advanced uranium enrichment was taking place prior to the attacks.
Recent satellite imagery has revealed ongoing activity and fresh evidence of significant damage to tunnels and access roads at Iran’s underground Fordow uranium enrichment site. pic.twitter.com/NvtA1TfM0z
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 29, 2025
At least two excavators (backhoe), trucks, cranes and a bulldozer are seen operating above and near the ventilation shafts and impact craters at the Fordow site in a Maxar image recorded on Saturday (June 28).
????The Iranians are working at full speed with heavy engineering tools at the Fordow nuclear site. pic.twitter.com/723ycX9kVD
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) June 29, 2025
Construction of the facility at Fordow, 90 meters (295 feet) below the rocky surface of a mountain near the Iranian holy city of Qom, was completed in 2012. The facility was built to withstand bunker-buster bombs and multiple airstrikes.
Nevertheless, US and Israeli intelligence personnel have all said the facility was destroyed in the US attack, which struck the two weakest points above the uranium enrichment halls in the Fordow facility, “obliterating” the centrifuges below.
NEW: Iran has likely begun to assess damage and conduct repair operations at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Commercially available satellite imagery captured on June 28 and 29 shows Iranian heavy equipment near two clusters of three impact points on ventilation shafts at… pic.twitter.com/w2IyR2HpfM
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) June 29, 2025
Despite the massive destruction, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said in an interview with CBS News this weekend that Iran could possibly resume some uranium enrichment within “a matter of months.”
Grossi, meanwhile, has been banned from entering Iran by the Tehran government following a vote by the Iran parliament approving suspension of cooperation with the IAEA.
