The Israeli Air Force recently struck an Iranian nuclear weapons research and development site in Tehran, the military announced on Saturday, as Israel and the United States continued their operations to eliminate the Islamic Theocratic
Republic’s nuclear program. According to the IDF, the "strategic" site at Malek Ashtar University was used by Iran’s military industries to develop components for nuclear weapons. Malek Ashtar University, subordinate to Iran’s defense ministry, is under Western sanctions over its activities relating to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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it has enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. Israel alleged during 2025’s 12-day war that Iran had taken steps toward weaponizing its enriched uranium and creating a bomb.
Iranian media said earlier on Saturday that US-Israeli forces had attacked the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan Natanz uranium enrichment complex on Saturday morning. Technical experts found that no radioactive leaks had occurred, and nearby residents were not at risk. In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said that it did not conduct any strikes in the area and that it could not comment on American activities.
Iran’s stockpile of some 450 kilograms of 60 percent-enriched uranium is believed to be buried under the rubble of sites bombed by the US last year, specifically near Isfahan and the Natanz area. That uranium is a short step away from weapons-grade material, enough for an estimated 10 nuclear bombs.
Securing the highly enriched uranium has been seen as one of the possible targets of the war for Washington and Jerusalem, though doing so would require a complex and dangerous operation.
IDF CHIEF SAYS IRAN CAMPAIGN AT ’HALFWAY’ STAGE
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Saturday that the military was about halfway through its campaign against Iran.
"We are halfway through, but the direction is clear. In about a week, on Passover, the holiday of freedom, we will continue to fight for our freedom and our future," he said in a video statement.
Zamir said that the "extensive damage we have caused to the Iranian regime over the past three weeks is beginning to accumulate into a systemic-strategic, military, economic, and governmental achievement."
"As a result, the regime of evil is weaker, and Iran is more exposed and without significant defense capabilities. The leaders of the regime, who developed capabilities with the goal of destroying us, are battered and confused," he said.
Zamir also commented on Iran’s long-range ballistic missile attack on the British-American Indian Ocean military base at Diego Garcia on Friday.
"Just yesterday, Iran launched a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 4,000 kilometers [2,500 miles] toward an American target on the island of Diego Garcia. These missiles were not intended to hit Israel. Their range reaches the capitals of Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
— Berlin, Gay Paree, and Rome are all within direct threat range," he said.
US said to strike Iran’s Natanz enrichment site, IDF hits missile production sites
[IsraelTimes] Report claims American forces used bunker busters to bomb nuclear facility; Iran fires missile at Israeli fighter jet, no damage reported
The United States struck Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility on Saturday, several media reports claimed, as the American and Israeli air forces continued their bombing campaign against regime targets.
Iranian media said US-Israeli forces attacked the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan Natanz enrichment complex on Saturday morning. Technical experts found that no radioactive leaks had occurred, and nearby residents were not at risk.
In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said that it did not conduct any strikes in the area and that it could not comment on American activities. Israel’s Kan news reported that the US had indeed struck the facility, using “bunker buster” bombs to target the site. It cited unspecified sources.
In June 2025, during Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, the US dropped more than a dozen GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on the Fordo and Natanz underground nuclear facilities.
Iran’s stockpile of some 450 kilograms of 60 percent-enriched uranium is believed to be buried under the rubble of sites bombed by the US last year, specifically near Isfahan and the Natanz area.
On March 3, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said entrance buildings in Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility had sustained partial damage, after satellite photos showed damage inflicted during the ongoing US-Israeli bombing campaign. “Based on the latest available satellite imagery, IAEA can now confirm some recent damage to entrance buildings of Iran’s underground Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP),” the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency stated, adding, “No radiological consequence expected and no additional impact detected at FEP itself, which was severely damaged in the June [2025] conflict.”
Following Saturday’s attack, the IAEA said it was looking into the matter. Its head, Rafael Grossi, called for “military restraint to avoid any risk of a nuclear accident,” but the UN watchdog confirmed that no increase in off-site radiation levels had been reported.
ISRAEL SAYS ATTACKS WILL INTENSIFY
During a wave of airstrikes in Tehran overnight, the IDF said it hit dozens of targets related to Iran’s production of ballistic missiles.
According to the military, the targets hit by the Israeli Air Force included a key complex of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used to manufacture ballistic missile components; a storage facility for missile components; a complex of the Iranian defense ministry tasked with producing missile fuel; and another missile components factory.
The IDF said it also hit several air defense systems in the Tehran area as part of the wave of strikes.
Additionally, an Israeli Air Force fighter jet came under anti-aircraft fire over Iran, the military said.
According to the IDF, a surface-to-air missile launch was identified toward the jet.
“The crew acted according to procedures, no damage was caused to the aircraft, and the mission was completed as planned,” the IDF said in a statement. No further details were given.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it had hit an Israeli F-16 fighter jet over the country’s center, though it was unclear if it was referring to the same incident.
“An F-16 hostile enemy fighter jet belonging to the Zionist regime was struck at 3:45 a.m. in central Iran,” the Guards said on its Sepah News website.
IAF pilots have come under Iranian anti-aircraft missile fire numerous times amid the war. In one case, the military said a fighter pilot was “close to being hit.”
Also on Saturday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said that strikes against Iran would intensify.
“This week, the intensity of the strikes that the IDF and the US military will carry out against the Iranian terror regime and the infrastructure it relies upon will significantly escalate,” he said during an assessment with military officials.
Katz said that Israel was “determined to continue leading the offensive against the Iranian terror regime, to decapitate its commanders and thwart its strategic capabilities, until every security threat to the State of Israel and to US interests in the region is removed.”
“The IDF is strong, and the Israeli home front is strong, and we will not stop until all war objectives are achieved,” he added.
US SAYS 8,000 IRANIAN TARGETS HIT
The Chief of the US Central Command Adm. Brad Cooper said that the American military had struck over 8,000 targets in Iran since the start of the war, while noting that Iranian attacks have continued to decline.
“So far, we’ve struck over 8,000 military targets, including 130 Iranian vessels, constituting the largest elimination of a navy over a three-week period since World War II,” Cooper said in a video update.
“My operational assessment continues to be: Iran’s combat capability is on a steady decline as our offensive strikes ramp up,” he said.
Cooper said the US military is “taking out thousands of Iranian missiles, advanced attack drones, and all of Iran’s navy, which they use to harass international shipping.”
“Their navy is not sailing, their tactical fighters are not flying, and they’ve lost the ability to launch missiles and drones at the high rates seen at the beginning of the conflict,” he said, adding, “our progress is obvious.”
Cooper also said that the American military remains “zeroed in on dismantling Iran’s decades-old threat to the free flow of commerce throughout the Strait of Hormuz.
“For example, earlier this week, we dropped multiple 5,000-pound bombs on an underground facility located along Iran’s coastline. The Iranian regime used the hardened underground facility to discreetly store anti-ship cruise missiles, mobile missile launchers, and other equipment that presented a dangerous risk to international shipping,” he said.
“We not only took out the facility but also destroyed intelligence support sites and missile radar relays that were used to monitor ship movements,” Cooper stated.
“Iran’s ability to threaten freedom of navigation in and around the Strait of Hormuz is degraded as a result, and we will not stop pursuing these targets,” he added.
Iran’s de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas normally flows, and the numerous attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East, have sent crude oil prices soaring.
| Iran is still shipping oil, primarily to China, which keeps China mostly from buying elsewhere — pretty much Iran’s only external income. Should achina decide the risk isn’t worth chrap oil, Irn’s economy will collapse. |