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The Israeli military announced that it did not carry out the airstrike that targeted Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility, distancing itself from an attack that Tehran has attributed to a joint US-Israeli operation.
In a statement released this morning, the Israeli military said its warplanes had not conducted any strike on the area where the Natanz facility is located. The military added that it would not comment on US activities in Iran, citing "war conditions."
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization had earlier announced that the Natanz Shahid Ahmadi Roshan Nuclear Facility, which is considered critical to the country's uranium enrichment program, was struck in an attack it attributed to the US and Israel.
According to the organization, technical assessments conducted after the strikes found no radioactive leak at the facility, and authorities said there was no danger to the surrounding population.
The Natanz facility, located in Isfahan province in central Iran, has long been at the center of international tensions over Tehran's nuclear program. The underground enrichment complex has been a focal point of diplomatic disputes for over two decades, with Western governments expressing concern that Iran's enrichment activities could be directed toward developing nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran has consistently denied.
Israeli state broadcaster KAN, citing sources with knowledge of the matter, reported that the airstrikes on the Natanz facility were carried out by US warplanes using bunker-buster bombs. The report aligns with the Israeli military's implicit suggestion that the operation was conducted by Washington rather than Tel Aviv.
Bunker-buster munitions are specifically designed to penetrate reinforced underground structures before detonating, making them a weapon of choice against hardened facilities like Natanz, where much of the enrichment infrastructure is housed deep below ground.
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