UN Nuclear Watchdog Says Iranian Nuclear Site Sustained Damage

The IAEA said that the facility at Natanz, which was also hit during Operation Midnight Hammer in 2025, had been struck again.

A view of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility 250 km (155 miles) south of the Iranian capital, Tehran, on March 30, 2005. Raheb Homavandi/Reuters

The United Nations nuclear watchdog said on March 3 that one of Iran’s enrichment sites sustained damage during the joint U.S.–Israeli operation against the Islamic Republic.

“Based on the latest available satellite imagery, IAEA can now confirm some recent damage to entrance buildings of Iran’s underground Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP),” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a post on X.