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Al Jazeera: Satellite images show damage from US strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site
The US struck Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites, escalating tensions with Iran.
NewsNation: Satellite photos: See before and after images of bombing at Iran nuke sites
Wired: What Satellite Images Reveal About the US Bombing of Iran’s Nuclear Sites
The US concentrated its attack on Fordow, an enrichment plant built hundreds of feet underground. Aerial photos give important clues about what damage the “bunker-buster” bombs may have caused.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 22, 2025
Last night, exactly a week after his military parade fizzled and more than five million Americans turned out to protest his administration, President Donald J. Trump announced that the U.S. had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites: Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan. He assured the American people that the strikes “were a spectacular military success” and that “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” “Iran,” he said, “must now make peace.”
…Today administration officials began to walk back Trump’s boast. The Wall Street Journal reported that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine said it was “way too early” to assess the amount of damage. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said that “no one, no one, neither us, nobody else, could be able to tell you how much it has been damaged.”
Tonight David E. Sanger of the New York Times reported that there is evidence to suggest that Iran had moved both uranium and equipment from the Fordo site before the strikes.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Chris Murphy: 8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Strikes on Iran
- There is an industry in Washington that profits from war, and so it’s no surprise that the merits of conflict are dangerously overhyped and the risks are regularly underestimated.
- Almost every war plan our military has devised for the Middle East and North Africa in the last two decades has been a failure.
- The strikes are illegal, and a major setback for the international rule of law that has undergirded American security for 75 years.
- You cannot bomb knowledge out of existence. Iran knows how to make a nuclear bomb.
- We didn’t need to start a war with Iran because we know – for sure – that diplomacy can work.
- Even opponents of this strike need to admit Iran is weak, and we cannot know for sure what the future holds.
- There are many very, very bad potential consequences of Trump’s attack.
- Israel is our ally and Iran IS a threat to their people, but we should never allow Israeli domestic politics to draw us into a war.
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Daily Beast: Trump Humiliates Hegseth, Rubio and Vance With Iran ‘Regime’ Post
‘MIGA!!!‘
There was a clear message from the Trump administration Sunday, until the president stepped in.
President Donald Trump muddied three of his top allies’ claims that the United States wasn’t attempting a “regime change” in Iran.Trump’s inner circle–notably Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio–has been in damage control ever since the president announced that the U.S. had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday night.
(Daily Beast more…)
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Common Dreams: After Trump’s Bombing, Sanders Condemns ‘Lies’ Over Iran Nuclear Threat
“We cannot allow ourselves to be dragged into another Middle East war based on lies.”
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“In the 1960s the United States government lied to the American people and took us into a terrible war in Vietnam,” said Sanders. “The result of that war was that over 58,000 young Americans died and many more came back wounded both in mind and in spirit. Millions of Vietnamese were also killed.”“Decades later, Americans were told by then-President George W. Bush that the U.S. must act quickly to stop Iraq from building “weapons of mass destruction”—with U.S. officials following the guidance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The United States invaded Iraq and became embroiled in a long civil war there. No weapons of mass destruction were ever found. That war was based on a lie—a lie which cost us 4,492 young Americans, 32,000 wounded, over half a million Iraqis and trillions of dollars,” said Sanders.
“The American people are being lied to again today,” he added. “We cannot allow history to repeat itself.”
U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Iran is not attempting to build a nuclear weapon with its enriched uranium stockpile, backing up repeated statements from Iranian officials who have said the country’s nuclear program is used only for peaceful civilian purposes.
(Common Dreams more…)
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NY Times: Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
Both Vice President JD Vance and Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, acknowledged questions about the whereabouts of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade nuclear material.
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Jay Kuo: Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling
We can’t trust anything the administration is saying or doing on Iran.
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Al Jazzera: Can Iran really shut down the Strait of Hormuz?
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Fast Company: Map: All 250 million acres of public land the Trump budget bill would sell off
The Senate’s reconciliation bill would mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of public lands, and make even more eligible for sale—including hiking trails, ski resorts, and wildlife corridors.
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The bill also makes even more public land eligible for sale—more than 250 million acres, including hiking trails, ski resorts, wilderness study areas, national monuments, and critical wildlife migration corridors. New areas would also be opened for oil leasing and offshore drilling under the bill, including in the Gulf of Alaska.
(Fast Company more…)
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Guardian: I study the resistance against the Nazis. Here’s what the US left can learn from it
Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examples
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emptywheel: Does Stephen Miller Know Pam Bondi Is Harboring Criminal Aliens?
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James Eagle: The US owes the world $26 trillion
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404 Media: ‘A Black Hole of Energy Use’: Meta’s Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta’s nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers’ power bills are still secret.
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Tom’s Hardware: Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner — ‘No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner’
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Marijuana Moment: Texas Governor Signs Bill To Significantly Expand State’s Medical Marijuana Program
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