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The Iran Files Ep 4: Fordow takes a deep look at the history behind Iran’s controversial nuclear program — from the 1968 NPT commitment to the heavily fortified Fordow facility buried deep beneath a mountain.

In this episode, we trace the major turning points: Iran’s nuclear ambitions under the Shah, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War and its impact on Tehran’s security thinking, the alleged A.Q. Khan proliferation network, the 2002 Natanz revelations, the discovery of Fordow, the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal and the collapse of that agreement.

The episode also examines the June 21, 2025 U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, known as Operation Midnight Hammer, involving B-2 bombers and bunker-busting weapons.

Why was Fordow built underground? How did Iran’s nuclear program evolve over decades? What happened after the JCPOA? And could military strikes actually end Iran’s nuclear ambitions?

Watch The Iran Files Ep 4 for the timeline, key events and geopolitical stakes behind the Fordow nuclear facility.

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00:00this glass light green inside it lies a secret that is 45 years old in iran near the city of
00:09calm under a mountain 90 meters deep named fordo but this story doesn't start here it starts in
00:181968 that very year july 68 the shah signed the npt a promise a nuclear bomb would never be built
00:28then came 1979 the shah left khomeini came said the nuclear program is un-islaming shut it down
00:36but then the 80s saddam's war chemical weapons thousands of iranians killed the world remains
00:44silent and iran learned those who don't have the bomb get bombed without mercy that's why in the
00:5690s centrifuge designs came from pakistan from aq khan's network and in the desert underground a
01:06factory began to be built the iaea knew nothing nothing at all then august 2002 a press conference
01:15in washington natanz araq two secret sites exposed to the world the iaea rushed in iran promised we
01:23will stop then they kept building centrifuge kept increasing by 2007 three thousand centrifuges were
01:32spinning quietly in natanz by the time the secret of natanz was revealed another secret was already
01:40being prepared under the mountain september 2009 obama took the stage said fordo under the mountain near
01:49calm bomb proof six years later july 2015 an agreement in vienna uranium cap at three and a half percent
01:59stock cut by 98 percent the world breathed a sigh of relief a historic deal hope for peace for 15
02:07years
02:07but four days later during the eid speech in tehran kamene on stage and one sentence kamene said the deal
02:17is done but our policy against america will never change so the deal was a cover deception was always the
02:27plan from 68 to 2015 2018 trump tore up the deal iran return 60 percent then 83.7 then june
02:4121st 2025
02:42210a 7b2 bombers suspected 14 bunker busters on fordo trump said destroyed it but iaea chief grossi said
02:53only a few weeks left up to 90 percent bombs destroy machines not decisions fordo is in ruins the question
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