As US bombers head to Guam amid rising tensions, Israel intensifies air campaign in Iran with over 1,000 strikes targeting missile infrastructure; Tehran warns US against joining the fight, while refusing to return to nuclear talks under fire

Six U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bombers departed from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri en route to Guam, Fox News reported Saturday, citing flight tracking data and air traffic control communications.

The B-2 bombers are the only aircraft capable of carrying the bunker-busting GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. This weapon is considered the only one capable of penetrating Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility. Though Fordow is believed to be buried up to 90 meters deep—beyond the GBU-57’s estimated 60-meter penetration—multiple successive strikes may still render it vulnerable. Each B-2 can carry two such bombs.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that any U.S. participation in attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites would be “extremely dangerous for everyone.” Speaking at an Islamic Cooperation conference in Istanbul, Araghchi said Tehran will not return to nuclear negotiations with Washington as long as the war with Israel continues. “We cannot negotiate with the U.S. while our cities are being bombed,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched fresh strikes on military infrastructure in southwestern Iran. The pro-Iranian Iraqi militia-affiliated Sabereen News Agency reported Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Shib crossing on the Iran-Iraq border, on the Iranian side. The opposition channel Iran International reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Karbala base in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, was also struck.

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