The three sites hit by U.S. bombs Saturday were not only to take out Iran’s nuclear enrichment abilities but to take out the middle pieces of where it would “process a pit, that nuclear material” into an explosive device, retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Newsmax on Saturday. 

“These are some of the hardened sites where they suspect that Iranian uranium enrichment and weapons research,” he said. “This is key – uranium research and uranium enrichment, and weapons research were going on.”

The “pit,” he explained, is what is encased in an explosive outer core, which is then put into a device mounted in a gravity bomb.

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