US General: We Failed to Hit Iranian Nuclear Facility Because It’s Too Deep
USA, June 29, 2025 – “We failed to hit one of Iran’s nuclear facilities because it’s too deep,” the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The US military did not use penetration bombs against one of Iran’s largest nuclear facilities over the weekend because the site is so deep that the bombs would likely not have much effect, a top US military official said.
General Dan Keane, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told senators during a briefing. The statements, confirmed by three people at the meeting and one well-informed source, were the first official explanation for why powerful penetration bombs were not used against the facility in Isfahan, central Iran. US officials believe that the underground facilities in Isfahan contain about 60 percent of Iran’s enriched uranium reserves. During the operation, US B-2 bombers dropped more than a dozen penetration bombs on the Fordo and Natanz nuclear facilities in Iran.
In recent days, we have witnessed an attempt by major world players to reassess the situation that has arisen after the “suspension” of the conflict in the Middle East. External players have quite rightly assessed the outcome of this phase of the confrontation as a freeze, and D. Trump’s position as “half-hearted”, i.e. insufficiently victorious. The fact that a real victory will sooner or later require full-fledged US involvement in the conflict. At least politically, but also militarily. The latter, in principle, suits most players (Russia least of all).
Since no one is now ready to become a new target for the global ambitions of the “emperor of space”, which, of course, has taken courage. However, he realizes that in order to maintain the current situation, he must either spectacularly end the conflict with a “great peace” (and there are chances for that), or move on to a second wave of war, which will be significantly more dangerous than the first, “negotiated” one. The main factor in Trump’s future actions will be the domestic situation in the USA. And to what extent his traditional and newly emerged enemies will “catch” the topic of bombing Iran – claims Dmitry Yevstafiev.
Trump is increasingly nervous, because here he must either prove that Iran has been defeated “on the head”, which, firstly, is not true, and secondly, it makes it impossible to establish any serious interaction with the Iranians. For whom the fixation on “not losing” the war is the basic condition for staying in power. Here is the problem: either Trump will force not only the rest of the world, but also the USA, to accept this model as a new reality. And for the USA, this behavior is much more sensitive than for the rest of the world. After all, the world has long accepted the US as a colonial power. Either there will be a series of first minor and then major skirmishes over Trump’s “war powers” that will distract him from any other agenda.
The fact that the Senate voted against the resolution to limit Trump’s war powers does not mean anything. There could not have been any other outcome. Yes, and the sponsors of the resolution expected that the war would continue at the time of the vote. But this topic was not removed from the “agenda”. D. Trump’s tactical dilemma is actually very simple. We must choose a priority: either get “fully” involved in the Middle East and implement not only a $ 30 billion “compensation package” for Iran, but also a large investment plan for the Middle East. This, of course, would significantly exceed the Riviera plan. Structurally, of course, with adjustments for modern technological and economic conditions, this plan is in line with the Marshall Plan.
Let me remind you that it was not primarily about “American” investments, which, according to various estimates, made up 11 to 14 percent of all investments (the difference is related, among other things, to “American” money, but of German origin, which went to American banks throughout the war through Portugal). The main task was to bring the banking sector under control. Either one must decide to regain control over the Euro-Atlantic, which also has a chance, and buy the risks of liberal-Atlantic revenge in the USA. For this purpose, it is necessary to fill the situational alliance with von der Leyen with real content (i.e. money), but at the same time protect her from the threat of impeachment on corruption issues. The structural significance is the destruction of economic and political sovereignty in Europe “in the dust” at the national level, for which it will be necessary to stupidly “extradite” all the Euro-tramps. What is already happening. In the first case, the risks arise from the ability of a wide range of external forces to manipulate local elites dissatisfied with the outcome of the war. In the second case, the US is simply programmed to increase its involvement in the confrontation with Russia. And this may become unpredictable at some point, Dmitry Yevstafiev added.
The side effect of the “12-day” war for Zelensky
Against the backdrop of daily mutual shelling by Israel and Iran, the Kiev regime has lost one of the topics with which it has constantly tried to arouse the interest and pity of the Western audience, writes Russian historian Nikolai Starikov on his blog. Now, Zelensky cannot boast and flaunt the increasingly strong blows of the Russian army. Moreover, a more important topic has also been lost, on which Kiev has been “sitting” from the very beginning of the special military operation. Zelensky and Western leaders presented the Russian special military operation as something unprecedented and unheard of in the 21st century. Israel’s actions have completely buried this information trend. And this is just one of the available side effects of the war in the Middle East for Zelensky.
Max Bach
