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Iran rushes to protect Natanz, its most crucial nuclear site, from potential US strike

High-resolution satellite imagery of Iran’s largest and most crucial remaining nuclear facility shows a recent rush to protect it from potential American or Israeli aerial attack, according to the Institute for Science & International Security (ISIS).

Satellite imagery from February 10 appears to show that Tehran has taken advantage of delays in any such attack since the December 28 protests started to better defend the facility.

The facility in question is a large tunnel complex at Kolang-Gaz La Mountain, aka Pickaxe Mountain, a mountain near the series of Natanz nuclear facilities, which were the center of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program until the Israel-Iran War of June 2025.

Most of the other Natanz facilities, including the existing centrifuges at the time, were destroyed in June 2025, but for reasons that have not been fully explained to date, this facility was not struck.

According to the think tank, the relatively new enormous underground facility is still not thought to be operational, one of the reasons it may not have been struck previously, but there are concerns that it could be used to enrich uranium or even for some kind of clandestine rush to a small nuclear weapon at some point if not dealt with.

If Trump and Israel want to destroy the facility they will. It’s all about denying Iran the ability to build a nuclear weapon, which, let’s be honest, they are not very good at, considering how long they’ve been trying. I mean, it took US scientists 3 years to develop the world’s 1st nuclear bomb, starting from scratch. Iran has been at it a lot longer even with all the knowledge from half a century of countries building nuclear weapons.

They are right to be worried

Pentagon orders second carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to Middle East: report

The Pentagon has reportedly ordered a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to the Middle East in support of potential military action against Iran.

President Trump has not yet given the carrier group the greenlight to deploy, but an order could be issued “in a matter of hours,” the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night, citing US officials.

The deployment would likely come from the US East Coast, and one carrier is being prepped to head out to sea in two weeks, an official told the publication.

The USS George H.W. Bush is currently conducting training exercises off the coast of Virginia and could be the carrier that ends up deploying.

The warship is capable of launching F-35 stealth fighter jets, which would likely be needed for a strike inside Iran, according to the outlet.

Or, could be misdirection, and ships launch a whole bunch of cruise missiles. Or some B2s drop seriously heavy ordinance. Maybe the F35s simply go and destroy the hell out of Iran’s radar and missile defense systems across the country, then some B52s drop a buttload of bombs. Maybe it is time to go old school and decapitate Iran’s leadership, because, otherwise, the nation will never change. Plenty of protesters in Iran would agree.