Israeli and American officials say Taleghan-2’s activities are aimed at creating nuclear weapons.
The Israeli army destroyed an active top-secret nuclear weapons research center in Iran in an attack in late October. This was reported by the American media Axios, citing American and Israeli officials.
Israel’s strike on a site previously considered inactive has dealt a major blow to Iran’s efforts to revive nuclear weapons research, the sources said.
According to a former Israeli official, “sophisticated equipment used to produce plastic explosives that encase the uranium in a nuclear device and cause it to detonate was destroyed.”
One of the targets of the Israeli strike on October 25 was the Taleghan-2 facility in the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran.
The facility was part of Iran’s nuclear weapons program until Iran halted its military nuclear program in 2003. According to the Institute of Science and International Security, the facility was used to test the explosives needed to launch a nuclear devices.
Satellite images showed that the Taleghan-2 building was completely destroyed.
Israeli and US officials said the Taleghan 2 activities represented an effort by the Iranian government to conduct research that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, but could also be presented as civilian research.
Earlier, Grossi said Iran was “weeks rather than months” from having enough enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb.
Source: korrespondent
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