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Speaker 1: So we now know. The Americans used seven B two

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Speaker 1: stealth bombers to attack Iran. A dozen bunker buster bombs

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Speaker 1: were used. They flew in the dark at night, dropping

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Speaker 1: the payload just after two am local time. They fired

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Speaker 1: Tomahawk missiles from US Navy ships nearby. They call it

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Speaker 1: Operation Midnight Hammer. They claimed it was successful, But what

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Speaker 1: we don't actually know is how successful and what success

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Speaker 1: actually means. Satellite images don't show you what's happening underground. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the bunker buster bombs are designed to blow stuff up

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Speaker 1: around sixty meters underground. Nobody but the Iranians know exactly

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Speaker 1: how deep their enrichment facilities are hidden. Nobody knows how

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Speaker 1: thick the concrete is that they put on top of it.

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Speaker 1: It's possible that the main guts of their facilities haven't

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Speaker 1: been hit at all. Then you ask, what does success

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Speaker 1: mean If success is destroying Iran's nuclear capability, Well, that

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Speaker 1: hasn't happened. Just were taken out in Israel's first strikes,

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Speaker 1: but not all of them. Iran has very smart people

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Speaker 1: with knowledge of nuclear weapons and enrichment. China sends them

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Speaker 1: the uranium. This strike will have set them back but

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Speaker 1: this is a country who's shown time and again not

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Speaker 1: just how capable they are, but how determined they are

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Speaker 1: to have nuclear weapons. To be a nuclear state doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean the strike wasn't worth it, of course, if they

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Speaker 1: won't negotiate, but also success depends on how you define it.

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