Satellite Images Show Damage To Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Facility

Satellite images of Iran’s Natanz atomic installation taken connected Monday show respective damaged buildings, compared pinch imagery from nan erstwhile day, on pinch further harm crossed nan facility’s complex.

Vantor, an imaging institution based successful Colorado and formerly known arsenic Maxar Technologies, released images that it said showed harm to buildings lodging unit and to conveyance entrances to nan underground substance enrichment complex.

Earlier Tuesday, nan United Nations' atomic watchdog said nan Natanz enrichment tract sustained “some caller damage” pursuing nan U.S.-Israeli onslaught connected Iran.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said location was “no radiological consequence expected."

The atomic installation astatine Natanz, located astir 220 kilometers (135 miles) southeast of Tehran, is Iran’s main enrichment site. It had been targeted by Israeli airstrikes successful nan 12-day warfare betwixt Iran and Israel successful June 2025, and by nan U.S.

Monday’s onslaught connected nan Natanz installation marks nan first confirmed onslaught against a atomic tract successful Iran during nan latest information of fighting.

Following past summer’s little war, U.S. President Donald Trump and his management said that Iran’s atomic capabilities had been “obliterated”. But up of nan existent information of hostilities, Trump again warned of Iran’s atomic ambitions. He claimed connected Monday that Iran was seeking to rebuild its atomic program.

Iran has 4 declared atomic enrichment facilities. The IAEA said past week successful a confidential report, seen by The Associated Press, that owed to deficiency of entree it “cannot supply immoderate accusation connected nan existent size, creation aliases whereabouts of nan stockpile of enriched uranium successful Iran.”

Iran has said it has not enriched since June, but it has blocked world inspectors from visiting nan sites nan U.S. bombed. Satellite photos analyzed by AP person shown caller activity astatine 2 of those sites, suggesting Iran was trying to measure and perchance retrieve material.