“A centrifuge manufacturing workshop has been hit in Esfahan, the third such facility that has been targeted in Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear-related sites over the past week,” the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement quoting its chief Rafael Grossi.
“We know this facility well. There was no nuclear material at this site and therefore the attack on it will have no radiological consequences,” Grossi was quoted as saying.
The Israeli army, for its part, declared that the attacks on “two centrifuge production sites” in Isfahan had dealt “a severe blow to Iran’s centrifuge production capabilities.” Israel previously targeted the facility in Isfahan at the outset of the war with Iran roughly a week ago. The latest strike is reported to have caused more extensive damage.
Later, Israel also struck what it described as “military infrastructure” in southwestern Iran. Iranian media reported “heavy explosions” in the city of Ahvaz, located in Khuzestan province – a key oil-producing region bordering Iraq.
