Israel said it targeted Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor site on Thursday morning “to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for nuclear weapons development.”
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The Israeli military posted a video of the strike on social media, showing several explosions.
The site had been one of Iran’s key nuclear facilities, once thought to produce weapons-grade plutonium. But as part of the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the site was retired and concrete poured into the core of the reactor.
Before the strike, the Israel Defense Forces issued an evacuation order on X for an area around the site.
Iranian state media reported that there had been no serious damage, no casualties and no radiation leak as a result of the strike at Arak.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, confirmed that there were no radiological effects from the attack.
