Israel destroyed top-secret nuclear research facility at Parchin

Israel National News reports: “Israel’s strike on Iran last month destroyed an active nuclear weapons and research facility in Parchin, Axios reported, quoting three US officials, one current Israeli official, and one former Israeli official.

The site was previously reported to be inactive, Axios added. However, it is now clear that the strike ‘significantly damaged’ Iran’s efforts to resume nuclear weapons research.

Iran has consistently denied that it is working to achieve a nuclear weapon, and its mission to the United Nations declined to comment on the story.

A former Israeli official briefed on the strike said Israel ‘destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it.’

According to the Institute for Science and International Security, the Parchin facility was part of the Iranian nuclear weapons program and used for testing explosives until Iran allegedly halted its military nuclear program in 2003…”

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