UN Nuclear Head Says Iranian Nuclear Facility Damaged in Israeli Strikes

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The overnight strikes killed several top Iranian military officials.

The head of the United Nationsโ€™ nuclear agency has confirmed that an Iranian nuclear facility was damaged during widespread Israeli strikes in Tehran overnight.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mariano Grossi said in a statement on Friday that attacks carried out by Israel on nuclear facilities were confirmed to him by Iranian officials and that the โ€œNatanz enrichment site has been impacted,โ€ but that radiation levels are not elevated.

โ€œThis development is deeply concerning. I have repeatedly stated that nuclear facilities must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances, as it could harm both people and the environment,โ€ the U.N. official said.

โ€œSuch attacks have serious implications for nuclear safety, security and safeguards, as well as regional and international peace and security.โ€

Grossโ€™s statement did not go into detail about the damage that was done during the strikes.

A spokesman for the Natanz site told Iranian state-run Tasnim News that only superficial damage was done to the nuclear facility, located in central Iran. The spokesman, Behrouz Kamalvandi, added that the uranium enrichment facility in another province was unharmed during the Israeli strikes.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested via state-run media that Iran would take action in response to the strikes with โ€œthe powerful arm of the Islamic Republicโ€™s Armed Forces,โ€ which will not โ€œlet them go unpunished.โ€

Israel, he added, โ€œhas prepared for itself a bitter, painful fate, which it will definitely see,โ€ noting that multiple commanders and scientists were killed in the strikes.

A number of top Iranian military officials, including the head of Iranโ€™s Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, were killed in the strikes. Also killed were Iranโ€™s chief of staff for the armed forces, the ranking commander of the Revolutionary Guards, and the head of the Guardโ€™s missile program.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his nation would โ€œstrongly take actionโ€ against Israel following its attacks on the country. In a televised address Friday, Pezeshkian urged people to unite behind the theocratic government.

U.S. President Donald Trump had previously warned that Israel or the United States could launch airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiators failed to reach a deal on Iranโ€™s rapidly advancing nuclear program. A sixth round of Iranโ€“U.S. talks is scheduled to begin on Sunday in Oman.

By Jack Phillips

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