Israel Targets Iranian Nuclear Program Yet Again, Officials Say

Israel launched airstrikes against Iranian nuclear infrastructure Friday, hitting multiple facilities tied to uranium processing and reactor operations in the latest assault on Tehran, state media claimed.

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization confirmed the Israeli strikes hit the Shahid Khondab Heavy Water Complex outside Arak and the Ardakan yellowcake plant in Yazd Province, Fortune and the Associated Press (AP) reported. Neither site suffered casualties or radioactive contamination, the organization said. Israeli forces had already attacked the Arak plant during operations last June, and it has not been functional since.

The Ardakan plant in Yazd province took fire minutes before Iran’s atomic agency posted a statement to its Telegram channel, according to Euronews. State-run media, the Fars News Agency, separately confirmed the Khondab complex was hit in two rounds, citing Markazi province official Hassan Ghamari. (RELATED: Iran Rejects Trump Admin’s Terms To End War, State Media Says)

Israel’s military took credit for the operations and said they were aimed at facilities “in the heart of Tehran” where weapons including ballistic missiles are produced, the AP and Fortune reported. Israel also claimed it struck launcher and storage positions in western Iran.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) described the targets as “missile production capabilities, infrastructure remaining from its nuclear program, and terror regime targets.”

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Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that future operations would grow in scope.

“Despite the warnings, the firing continues,” he said, according to Euronews. “And therefore attacks in Iran will escalate and expand to additional targets and areas that assist the regime in building and operating weapons against Israeli citizens.”

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Aerospace Force commander, Seyed Majid Moosavi, fired back on X, telling workers at companies linked to the U.S. and Israel to flee their posts.

“This time, the equation will no longer be ‘an eye for an eye,’ just wait,” Moosavi wrote.

The U.S.-Israeli campaign began Feb. 28, when the Trump administration launched Operation Epic Fury by striking targets in Iran.

President Donald Trump has insisted negotiations with Tehran are making headway. Trump pushed back a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz from Friday to April 6, saying Tehran requested the extension, Euronews reported. Washington has put forward a 15-point ceasefire framework requiring Iran to give up its hold on the waterway, while simultaneously sending thousands of additional troops into the region.

Israel previously struck a gas field that was jointly owned by Qatar and Iran. Trump confirmed Israel carried out the attack but claimed the U.S. was not aware of the strikes.