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A senior US official says that Israel was targeting an air defence radar system near Isfahan that protects the Natanz nuclear facility, ABC reports. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned countries against targeting strikes at Iran's nuclear facilities.
The quoted official goes on to say that three missiles were fired by an Israeli aircraft from outside Iran on Friday morning, and that an initial assessment seems to suggest that the radar site was destroyed. Isfahan - where the strike is thought to have taken place - is home to several of the country's nuclear facilities.
Earlier, Reuters quoted Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as saying that Israel's attack did not cause any damage or casualties. Rafael Grossi told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he let out a "big sigh of relief" after hearing no nuclear facilities had been affected by the strike.
His team, he says, had been "up most of the night...following the situation".
A strike on Iran's nuclear installations would have been "a terrible thing", Grossi says, but says that he's "not sure how effective that would be" due to Iran housing its facilities underground.
He believes the "issue of targeting nuclear installations seems to be getting on in the world these days, and we consider that absolutely deplorable".
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