New York (dpa) — Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that its nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Fordo have been attacked.
However, the IAEA does not yet have any information beyond reports of military activity around these facilities, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told the UN Security Council in New York on Friday.
There is no information about damage at this stage.
“At this moment we do not have enough information beyond indicating that military activity has been taken place around these facilities as well, which initially had not, I repeat, had not been been part of the military operation, but now there is enough information for me to say to you that these facilities are also concerned all these developments,” Grossi said.
According to the IAEA, only attacks on the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz had been confirmed.
Grossi warned that nuclear facilities must not be attacked under any circumstances and that such attacks could have serious radiation consequences.
The Israeli army said on Friday evening that it had attacked the nuclear facility in Isfahan. Iranian media also reported at least two explosions at the Fordo nuclear facility.
This is located about 100 kilometres southwest of Tehran and deep inside a mountain.
Centrifuges for uranium enrichment are also installed there, but the facility is smaller than the one in Natanz, which Israel also attacked during its major offensive against Iran.
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