Wo die ayatollah das iranische Uran verstecken könnte

Three days before Donald Trump ordered American jets to pound Iran’s Fordo nuclear complex with[ bunker-buster bombs](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/how-stealth-bomber-bunker-buster-strike-irans-nuclear-sites-3759887?ico=in-line_link), a convoy of 16 lorries was seen on satellite images arriving at one of the tunnels to the facility buried in a mountainside.

Analysis of the pictures suggested at least some of the trucks had come to dump aggregate in an ultimately forlorn attempt to reinforce what is regarded a key hub for the Islamic Republic’s [programme of enriching uranium](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/iran-nuclear-weapons-israel-3307229?ico=in-line_link). Other vehicles, however, had arrived unladen and appeared to be tasked with removing material from the site.

Just what was removed has not been disclosed but according to experts – and the [Iranian regime ](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/everything-we-know-us-attack-on-iran-so-far-3763890?ico=in-line_link)itself – it is a reasonable assumption that at least some of the highly-enriched uranium (HEU) hidden at Fordo was no longer there by the time Washington’s B2 bombers struck in the early hours of Sunday.

Prior to Israel’s decision to unleash Operation Rising Lion, its ongoing air campaign against [Iran](https://inews.co.uk/topic/iran?ico=in-line_link), it was known that Tehran had amassed a stock of more than 400kg of uranium enriched to levels slightly below that required to make a nuclear weapon.

They could load it onto one of the many Iranian cargo ships in the Caspian sea and moor it in Russian waters.

This would make it impossible to find and destroy.