Israel’s army says it struck a centrifuge production site and weapons manufacturing sites in Iran, the BBC reports.
It said: “As part of the extensive effort to disrupt the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons development program, a centrifuge production site in Tehran was attacked, intended to enable the Iranian regime to expand the scope and pace of its uranium enrichment for nuclear weapons development.”
Centrifuges are machines that enrich uranium. Enriched uranium can be used to make fuel for power plants but also nuclear bombs.
Centrifuges at Iran’s underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz were likely to have been “severely damaged if not destroyed altogether” following Israeli strikes on Friday, the head of the global nuclear watchdog told the BBC on Friday.
