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Do not overestimate what those can do. They can do alot, but not s much as you might think. The bombs they are referring to are standard 500, 1000 and 2000 pound bombs(BLU series) equipped with laser guidance most likely. To give you an idea, when I was in the navy with old F-18C's, we would carry sometimes 8 2k pound bombs(mk84/BLU-117) per aircraft. The few hundred the article talks about would be used in a single strike, and the 10k number you give in a week. It would be virtually impossible to destroy either Iran's nuclear or military capability with just airstrikes and would take many times the amount of ordnance the article you link suggests.
Iran may however have some Phoenix missiles left they can load on their few F-14's and get some actual aircraft kills, but few and not for long.
I know they're not capable of hitting the nuke sites but they're referring to other Iranian military assets. Missile and rocket launchers, armory depots, tanks, big guns, planes, Navy etc.
According to Panetta they're working on improving the MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) but it's a time table game, and it might take a mop-nuke because the thing has to penetrate halfway thru a mountain.