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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that a significant nuclear site in Iran was targeted in Thursday night’s strike against the regime.
“Iran has amassed enough highly enriched uranium to create nine nuclear bombs, nine,” Netanyahu stated. “In recent times, Iran has been making unprecedented moves to weaponize this enriched uranium. If left unchecked, Iran could develop a nuclear weapon very quickly.”
The Natanz Nuclear Facility, a crucial component of Tehran’s nuclear capabilities, and which along with the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant has been highlighted by security analysts as having the potential to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for 11 nuclear weapons within a month, was impacted in the strikes, although the full extent of the damage is still unclear.
FILE – This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran on May 20, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP, File)
It is unclear at this time if any of the underground structures were hit in the Thursday night strikes.
“We will not let the world’s most dangerous regime get the world’s most dangerous weapons, and Iran plans to give those weapons, nuclear weapons, to its terrorist proxies,” Netanyahu said. “That would make the nightmare of nuclear terrorism all too real.
“The increasing range of Iran’s ballistic missiles would bring that nuclear nightmare to the cities of Europe, and eventually to America,” he added.
Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Reporting by The New York Times also said the Parchin military complex had been hit in the overnight strikes, though Fox News Digital could not independently confirm the hit.
The extent of the damage also remains unknown as it was reported in November that the Parchin military complex had been significantly damaged in Israel’s October strikes which housed a nuclear weapons research facility.
Another five military bases surrounding Tehran were also reportedly hit.
