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The heavily fortified Fordow site near Qom, 100 miles south of Tehran, is built under a mountain that could withstand even the most severe aerial bombardment

IRAN is preparing to ramp up production at a secret nuclear site built under a MOUNTAIN to protect it from US attack, experts have said.

Tehran's nuke scientists are ready to massively step up uranium enrichment at the heavily-fortified Fordow Plant, a top security think tank said on Wednesday.

The bombshell report from the renowned Institute for Science and International Security claimed that efforts are underway at the facility to hugely increase its uranium stocks.

It read: "Fordow is potentially part of Iran’s current threats to progressively go to higher enrichment levels and increase its stocks of enriched uranium."

This week, nuclear inspectors confirmed Iran was breaching a nuclear pact with the West by upping its uranium enrichment from 3.67 per cent to 5 per cent.

But Iranian officials quoted by the think tank have previously said that enrichment at Fordow can quickly be increased to 20 per cent.

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Ali Akbar Salehi said in December 2018: "We currently have 1,044 centrifuges in Fordow - and if the establishment wants we will restart 20 per cent uranium enrichment in Fordow."

UNDERGROUND BUNKER

The top-secret bunker near Qom - about 100 miles south of Tehran - is buried deep within a rural mountain range.

Satellite imagery shows two massive rings of steel fencing around the site - each with heavily armed checkpoints along the entrance road.

Guard towers are placed at 25m intervals along the inner defensive line - while two tunnel entrances can be seen in the centre.

It is protected against a range of conventional bomb attacks and could even fend off hugely powerful so-called "bunker buster" bombs.

The weapons - such as the 2,000lbs Paveway III rocket - have been used by the US and British air forces to devastating effect against ISIS bases in Syria.

But experts fear the impenetrable Fordow fortress may be able to withstand them.

The Institute report says: "Fordow’s underground tunnel complex is fortified to withstand

BREACHED 2015 AGREEMENT

Iran's pledge this week to further scale back its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers increases the speed with which it can produce nuclear weapons.

The deal capped the level of purity to which Iran can enrich uranium hexafluoride - the feedstock for centrifuges - at 3.67 per cent - far below the 90 per cent of weapons grade.

And part of the 2015 pledge was to transform the role at Fordow into a purely research-driven one.

The agreement specified that Fordow be "converted into a ‘nuclear, physics and technology centre’ with the purpose of international scientific collaboration.”

But the Institute for Science and International Security report says that Iran has gone against this part of the deal - and never re-purposed the Fordow site.

aerial bombardment."

TWO WARHEADS PER YEAR

The think-tank believes Fordow could be quickly converted into full-scale nuclear weapons production - building up to two deadly warheads per year.

This was the intended purpose of the site dating back to 2002, according to secret Iranian nuclear plans seized last year by Israeli Mossad agents, the report said.

The Institute warned: "Iran is now increasing its enrichment levels and stockpile in violation of the [2015 nuclear deal] and could feasibly do so at Fordow - which is heavily f

HEIGHTENED TENSIONS

Iran says it will continue to breach the deal's caps one by one until it receives sanctions relief promised under terms of the agreement.

Washington is set on isolating Iran to force it to negotiate stricter limits on its nuclear programme.

The US also wants to reduce Iran's ballistic missile programme and its role around the conflict-ridden Middle East.

On Wednesday, boats believed to belong to the Iranian military tried to seize the British oil tanker British Heritage passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

It sparked a tense standoff in the Persian Gulf when a Royal Navy frigate trained its weapons on the enemy vessels - who then backed off.

fortified against military intervention to halt it."