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Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News Israel-Iran live updates: Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News
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Frank Gardner Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is close
Security correspondent to the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), has posted a video with a caption saying: “Isfahan’s nuclear site is completely safe”.
Israel made it clear it would respond, in some way, to Iran’s "swarm" attack of drones and missiles last weekend and now it seems it has. The footage appears to show a man checking his watch near
If this is indeed the beginning and end of Israel’s response then it does appear to be very limited in size and scope. the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre. The camera then zooms in on several
Isfahan this morning looks normal. troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery.
All week Israel’s Western allies, notably the US and Britain, have been imploring its government not to carry out a heavy response to the Iranian missile attack. According to the World Nuclear Association, the Isfahan
Although that was a dramatic escalation, it was in itself a retaliation for Israel’s unprecedented air strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus on 1 April that killed 13 people including two top generals. Nuclear Technology Centre includes a uranium conversion facility (UCF), which
How this develops now from here will depend on two things: Whether that is the end of Israel’s attack and whether Iran now decides to attack back. produces uranium hexafluoride.
Iran feeds uranium hexafluoride gas into centrifuges to
produce enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel but also
nuclear weapons.
Next to the UCF is an enriched uranium oxide powder plant
(EUPP), which converts uranium hexafluoride into uranium oxide, and a fuel fabrication
plant that produces fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor.
Uranium oxide can be converted into uranium metal. Iran has said it plans to use uranium metal to produce reactor fuel, but it
could also be used to make the core of a nuclear bomb.
The Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre also operates four
small nuclear research reactors supplied by China.
Iran insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful
and denies it has any ambitions to develop nuclear weapons. But Israel accuses Iran of developing nuclear capability that could be used to make a weapon.
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