IRAN has been caught red-handed covering up bombed nuclear sites, new satellite images reveal.
The terror regime has slapped roofs over bombed nuclear buildings at Natanz and Isfahan to hide work from spy satellites.
The covert clean-up was spotted by Planet Labs PBC and marks the first visible movement at Iran’s nuclear sites since last summer.
That followed a brutal 12-day war in which Israel smashed the facilities before America piled in with bunker-busting bombs and Tomahawk missiles.
Experts say the rushed construction is not rebuilding, but a desperate effort by the mullahs to dig through the wreckage and see what deadly nuclear material survived the onslaught.
Iran has offered no explanation for the secret building work and continues to bar UN nuclear inspectors – meaning satellites are now the only way to track the regime’s dangerous moves.
Security experts say the roofs are designed to let Iran quietly salvage enriched uranium or sensitive equipment without Israel or the United States seeing what survived the strikes.
The Natanz site – Iran’s main uranium enrichment hub – had been producing material just a short step from weapons-grade before it was blasted, with some of that deadly stockpile believed to have been onsite when the bombs fell.
Isfahan, meanwhile, was a key link in the nuclear supply chain, producing uranium gas fed into centrifuges – making it a prime target in the effort to cripple Tehran’s path to the bomb.
It comes as multiple mystery explosions ripped through Iran killing at least five people – after Donald Trump threatened to blitz the Ayatollah’s regime.
Dramatic footage shows plumes of smoke billowing from the site of one of the deadly blasts which also left 14 people injured.
The explosions come after Trump threatened to launch airstrikes against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over thousands of protester deaths and Tehran’s nuclear program.
Iran has made no suggestion the United States military is behind them with Israeli officials deny any involvement.
Six blasts were reported by Iranian sources amid rumours that the commander of the rogue islamist nation’s naval forces had been killed in a suspected drone strike.
But there was confusion last night as Iran denied reports that its military sites were under attack and claimed at least one of the explosions was a gas blast.
Four people are understood to have died from the gas explosion in the city of Ahvaz on the Iraqi border.
Local authorities said: “Following a gas explosion in a four-unit building in Kianshahr, four members of a family, including the father, mother, and their two children, lost their lives.”
A second blast at a tower block killed a four-year-old girl in the southern city of Bandar Abbas – where 14 people were also injured, local media reported.
The port is home to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy headquarters.
Semi-official news agency Tasnim called claims its commander was targeted “completely false”.
Meanwhile rumours swept Iran – where an internet blackout remains in place – that Brigadier General Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRGC Navy, has been assassinated.
But state media denied Tangsiri had been targeted.
The feared Revolutionary Guard’s spokesman last night blamed the reports of attacks as “terror alarms” being stoked by Israeli enemies.
The IRGC’S navy said: “No drone attack occurred on naval headquarters in Hormozgan province, specifically in Bandar Abbas city, and none of the buildings belonging to this force were damaged.”
The blast occurred in an eight-storey building, with shocking pictures from the scene showing severe damage to the lower floors.
Several wounded civilians were evacuated from the scene, according to the official IRNA news agency, and cars and a shop were also reportedly damaged.
Some Iranian outlets have attributed the blasts to “gas explosions”.
Other explosions have been reported in Karaj, Tabriz, Nowshahr, Hashtgerd and Qeshm.
But more explosions were reported in the cities of Qom, Parand, Qasr Shirin, Robat Karim and Ahvaz – where eye witnesses claimed to have seen a flying drone.
Israel – whose forces decimated the military command of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during last June’s Twelve Day War – denied any involvement in military action.
US military chiefs – whose massive force spearheaded by the USS Abraham Lincoln is gathering in the Gulf – stayed silent.
Previous reports of a blast in Shahr-e Jadid-e Parand were denied by a local governor, who claimed that widespread smoke across the city was a result of “a fire in dried reed beds along the banks of the Shur River”.
The US has bolstered its military presence in the region as tensions continue to escalate.
Trump took to Truth Social to deliver an ominous threat to the regime and announce that a “massive Armada is heading to Iran“.
He wrote: “It is moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose.
“It is a larger fleet, headed by the great Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln, than that sent to Venezuela.
“Hopefully Iran will quickly ‘Come to the Table’ and negotiate a fair and equitable deal – NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS – one that is good for all parties.
“Time is running out, it is truly of the essence! As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn’t, and there was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran.
“The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again.”
Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK will back Trump’s efforts to neutralise Iran’s nuclear program.
US “sniffer planes” recently touched down in Britain before the prime minister appeared to endorse military action against Tehran.
“The goal or the aim here is that Iran shouldn’t be able to develop nuclear weapons, and that is hugely important,” he said.
But Starmer refused to comment on whether the UK would support US strikes: “I am saying we support the goal and we are talking to allies about how we get to that goal.”
Country-wide protests rocked Iran over the new year before the mullah’s regime hit back with a deadly crackdown perpetrated amid a sweeping internet blackout.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/15869426/iran-explosions-kill-four-after-trump-threat/
