JERUSALEM: Targeting nuclear facilities in the Islamic republic, the Israeli military acknowledged Friday that it had attacked a heavy water reactor and a uranium processing facility in central Iran. The Israeli Air Force targeted the heavy water plant in Arak, central Iran, a “key plutonium production site for nuclear weapons,” according to a statement from the military.
The Khondab heavy water complex was hit by US-Israeli strikes, according to prior Iranian media reports, but there were no injuries or radioactive leaks.Tehran would demand a “HEAVY price for Israeli crimes” in retaliation, according to Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
The 2000s saw the start of construction on the reactor outside the village of Khondab, but it was put on hold as part of a now-canceled 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and international powers. In addition to a heavy water production plant, the research reactor’s official purpose was to generate plutonium for use in medical research.
The Israeli military also acknowledged that it had attacked a uranium processing plant in Yazd, central Iran, on Friday, following reports from the Islamic republic’s atomic energy organization that the facility had been targeted by US-Israeli strikes.
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