Iranian construction crews are busy at work on the surface of the uranium enrichment facility in Fordow five days after the US nailed the underground fortress with 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs, new satellite images showed.
Crews operated excavators, bulldozers, and other construction vehicles near the craters and punctures in the ground above the nuclear facility caused by the GBU-57 bunker buster bombs dropped by American B-2s last weekend, according to images captured by Maxar Technologies on Friday.
Other images showed apparent construction crews building access roads to the facility and rebuilding the damaged dirt road that led to the bunker laboratory that was targeted by the US as part of Israel鈥檚 conflict with the Islamic Republic.
Satellite images from before the attack showed similar construction activity on the surface of Fordow in the 24-hour period prior to the bunker-busters piercing the desert surface.
Those vehicles appeared to be moving unidentified contents out of the facility to a location roughly half-a-mile away.
Officials have stated that there has been no nuclear fallout or contamination as a result of the strikes.
Fordow鈥檚 centrifuges are currently 鈥榥o longer operational鈥 according to the UN鈥檚 nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency.
鈥淚t has suffered enormous damage,鈥 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told Radio France Internationale on Thursday.
鈥淭here is very, very, very considerable damage,鈥 Grossi said.
The extent of the destruction 鈥 and the amount of time the Iranian regime鈥檚 program has been set back 鈥 have yet to be officially determined.
President Trump has said the facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan have all been 鈥渙bliterated鈥 and set back years 鈥 dismissing a leaked preliminary report from the Defense Intelligence Agency that suggested there was 鈥渓ow confidence鈥 the Iranian nuclear program had been set back by the massive strike.
Following that leak, CIA Director John Radcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both backed up Trump and stated the strikes 鈥渟everely damaged鈥 Iran鈥檚 facilities.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth further pushed back against CNN and the New York Times for 鈥渂reathlessly鈥 reporting the leaked preliminary 鈥渓ow-confidence鈥 assessment of the consequential strike.
Trump fumed about the leaks on social media, writing, 鈥淭he Fake News should fire everyone involved in this Witch Hunt, and apologize to our great warriors, and everyone else!鈥
The Department of Justice is now seeking the origin of the leak and has promised to come down on the leaker with the full force of the law.