Israel hit with unfinished heavy water in Iran

Israeli planes bombed a nuclear reactor built in Central Iran during a wave of air strikes on the seventh day of the conflict between the two countries.

Israeli military has said it was aimed at the main seal of Arak Heavy Water reactor to stop its use for “nuclear weapons”.

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that the reactor was injured and that it did not contain nuclear material.

Continued fuel from heavy water reactors contains plutonium, suitable for a nuclear bomb.

Iran – which states that its nuclear program is completely peaceful – agreed in accordance with the conclusion of world powers to refurbish and restore the Arak so that it could not produce an armed level of plutonium.

Next year, the IAEA stated that Iran had removed the Arak Karandria or the reactor, and made it “insurmountable”.

The latest quarterly report of the Global Nuclear Caler said since the end of May that minor civil construction works are ongoing in the reactor, and that Iran is expected to be charged this year and will start working in 2026.

The Israeli military said the Iranian government “intentionally ordered (workers) not to complete the transformation … to put pressure to the West.”

“The strike is aimed at the component designed to produce plutonium to prevent the restoration and use of the reactor for the development of nuclear weapons,” it added.

Black and white attacks, released by the military, showed a bomb that hit the dome roof of the reactor building, and a few large bombings from the Arak, which are about 250 km (155 miles) southwest of Tehran, as well as known as Hondab.

A day video broadcast by the Iranian state TV showed two great advantages of white smoke that rise from the object. He also cited Iranian officials who say that the site was “secured in advance” and that “there was no pollution as a result of the attack.”

Shown satellite shots a large hole on the roof of the reactor building.

Also visible were that analysts identified how the distilled distillation towers belonging to the adjacent heavy water production plant. IAEA stated that he had no information indicating that heavy water plant had been impressed.

The Israeli military also announced on Thursday that its fighters struck the “nuclear weapons place” in Natants.

This is the location of the main plant of Iran, which produces the enriched uranium, which is used to prepare reactor fuel for power plants, but, when enriched, can be used in nuclear weapons.

The first wave of Israeli strikes last Friday destroyed the aforementioned part of the pilot Pilot Fuel Plant (PFEP), where centrifuge cascades enriched uranium, as well as electrical infrastructure.

Rafael Grosi, the IAEA CEO, said the BBC on Monday that if there were no signs of a physical attack on the underground centrifuge hall in Natantsa, sudden loss of power was probably heavily damaged, if not destroyed, the centrifuges that work there.

He said the four buildings were destroyed in a separate attack in the Center of ISFAKHAN atomic technology, he said. But very little, if any, the plant for enrichment of Iran was visible, he added.

President Donald Trump is said to weigh whether the US should participate in the Fordo strike because it is the only country with a regular bomb, big enough to destroy it. The sources reported that the American partner of the BBC CBS News that his thinking was what was necessary to disconnect the facility.

In 2018, Trump gave up a nuclear deal with Iran, saying it did too little to stop its way to the bomb, and restored US sanctions that crippled the Iranian economy.

Iran has avenged, increasingly violating the restrictions – especially those concerning the production of enriched uranium.

In her quarterly report, the IAEA expressed concern that Iran gained a sufficient amount of uranium -enriched up to 60% clean – a short technical step from the weapon class, or 90% potentially making nine nuclear bombs.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, said on Friday that it was aimed at the Iranian nuclear program because “if you do not stop, Iran can produce nuclear weapons in a very short time.” He presented no evidence.

Abbas Arakhchi, Iran’s Foreign Minister, said on Sunday that Israel “crossed a new red line in international rights”, attacking nuclear monuments. He also insisted that Iran’s doctrine “rooted in our faith in the ban and illegitimacy of nuclear weapons.”

It is believed that Israel has nuclear weapons, though it does not confirm or deny.

Israeli air strikes also destroyed Iranian military facilities and weapons, as well as killed senior military commanders and nuclear scientists.

Iran’s Ministry of Health said it was killed at least 224 people on Sunday, but a group of human rights group made an unofficial death on Thursday.

According to the Prime Minister’s office, Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles in Israel in response to at least 24 people.