Israel strikes at the heart of Iran's nuclear ambitions in Isfahan offensive

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) deed the Isfahan atomic tract successful Iran connected Friday night, a determination wherever uranium moves beyond enrichment to the "reconversion" process of gathering a atomic bomb. 

"The onslaught dismantled a installation for producing metallic uranium, infrastructure for reconverting enriched uranium, laboratories, and further infrastructure," the IDF said connected Friday. 

On Friday evening, video footage posted by Iranian media showed Iranian aerial defenses attempting to intercept a caller question of Israeli attacks connected the site, adding it to a database of atomic sites targeted that includes the cardinal Natanz facility.

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People stitchery connected a elevation to ticker fume rising successful the region from an Israeli airstrike successful Tehran, Iran, connected June 14, 2025. Iran's overseas curate said the state would respond "decisively and proportionally" to a question of attacks that Israel launched opening successful the aboriginal hours of June 13. The attacks targeted aggregate military, technological and residential locations, arsenic good arsenic elder authorities officials.  (Photo by Khoshiran/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The IAEA has confirmed that a atomic installation successful Isfahan was struck by Israel, but its operational presumption remains unknown.

"Isfahan’s uranium conversion installation is astatine the bosom of Iran’s quest for home substance rhythm mastery," Behnam Ben Taleblu, elder manager astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Iran program, told Fox News Digital. 

At Isfahan, uranium is converted into a authorities suited for gaseous enrichment. 

"Crippling this capableness astatine Isfahan would disconnect the dots betwixt Iran’s diverse atomic manufacture and perchance handicap aboriginal efforts to hole uranium for enrichment." 

 The IDF Struck the Nuclear Site successful the Isfahan Area (IDF)

Direct bombing of a installation that stores atomic substance represents a large stroke to Iran’s atomic programme – but besides risks radioactive spills. Israel avoided hitting Iran’s proviso of near-bomb-grade atomic substance astatine Isfahan, the New York Times reported. 

"All these developments are profoundly concerning," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said successful a connection connected the attacks. "I person repeatedly stated that atomic facilities indispensable ne'er beryllium attacked, careless of the discourse oregon circumstances, arsenic it could harm some radical and the environment." 

Israel has present targeted implicit 200 sites successful Iran successful its determination to destruct Iran’s atomic capability. 

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Technicians enactment wrong of a uranium conversion installation producing portion March 30, 2005, conscionable extracurricular the metropolis of Isfahan, astir 254 miles (410 kilometers), southbound of the capital, Tehran, Iran. The cities of Isfahan and Natanz successful cardinal Iran are location to the bosom of Iran's atomic program. The installation successful Isfahan makes hexaflouride gas, which is past enriched by feeding it into centrifuges astatine a installation successful Natanz, Iran. Iran's President Mohammad Khatami and the caput of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Gholamreza Aghazadeh visited the facilities.  (Getty Images)

Iranian media reported connected Saturday that Israel had struck near the northwestern Tabriz refinery, reporting 3 rocket strikes successful locations adjacent occidental Iran. 

The Israeli subject said that archetypal strikes had taken retired 9 atomic scientists, successful summation to apical generals successful the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and dozens of others. 

Iran’s counter-strikes person killed 3 Israelis. 

Experts person agelong warned that Iran is weeks distant from enriching uranium to a weapons-grade 90%, and Israeli quality sources suggest Iran had moved beyond enrichment into the aboriginal accumulation signifier of a atomic weapon.

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The IAEA has warned of Iran’s "rapid accumulation of highly enriched uranium" and said the authorities has been opaque astir providing details connected its use.