🇺🇸🇮🇷 — In a critical revelation to Congress, U.S. Air Force General Dan Cain confirmed that the Isfahan nuclear facility in Iran was deemed too deeply buried for even the U.S.’s Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs) to reach.
🔹 Instead of deploying the 30,000-lb bunker-busting MOP, the Pentagon opted for surface-level Tomahawk cruise missile strikes, effectively targeting infrastructure above ground.
🔹 General Cain said the uranium enrichment infrastructure at Isfahan lies so deep underground that “even MOPs would just scratch the surface.”
🔹 This admission comes amid broader U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, with Fordow and Natanz reportedly hit by B-2 bombers using full-scale bunker-busting ordnance.
While the strikes delivered a symbolic blow, the Isfahan site’s depth and design likely shielded its core uranium stockpiles, highlighting Iran’s successful nuclear hardening efforts against Western precision strike capabilities.
