Tehran (dpa) — Iran has confirmed that its nuclear facilities came under attack, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an attack on three Iranian nuclear sites.
Part of the area around the Fordow nuclear site was damaged by an enemy airstrike, state news agency IRNA reported early on Sunday.
The report cited a spokesman for the crisis team in the affected province of Qom, who said the situation in the area had since returned to calm.
The Fordow uranium enrichment facility is widely believed to be one of Israel’s most critical targets in its ongoing conflict with Iran.
Separately, a senior security official in Isfahan province reported explosions in Isfahan and Natanz, according to the Tasnim news agency, the mouthpiece of the nation’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC.
The official confirmed attacks “near” the nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Natanz.
Trump had said that the United States carried out a “very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.”
On Thursday, a former IRGC commander said in a TV interview that highly enriched uranium had already been removed from the nuclear facilities before the conflict with Israel began just more than a week ago.
“We moved all the materials beforehand,” said Mohsen Rezaei, a retired major general.
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