The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Thursday a new attack against facilities linked to the Iranian regime's nuclear program.
According to the official statement from the Israeli army, the operation aimed at the Taleghan complex, a facility located near Tehran that, according to Israeli military intelligence, was used to advance capabilities related to the development of nuclear weapons.
“The Israeli Air Force, acting with precise IDF intelligence, attacked an additional site of the Iranian nuclear program,” the army said in its statement.
The offensive is part of the joint operation that Israel is carrying out with the United States to neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat.
The Taleghan complex and the secret nuclear project
The attacked complex is located in the Parchin military zone, southeast of
Tehran.According to the Institute for Science and International Security analysis center, this facility would have been used to carry out covert military activities related to the Iranian nuclear program.
According to Israel, the place was linked to the secret Amad project, a nuclear weapons development program that Iran would have carried out during the 2000s.
The IDF maintains that advanced explosives and sensitive experiments related to nuclear weapons were being developed in this complex.
The Israeli army also indicated that the Iranian regime had recently begun rebuilding the site
after previous attacks.Israel also hits drone infrastructure In addition to the
attack on the nuclear complex, Israel reported that in recent days it destroyed much of the Iranian regime's drone infrastructure
.According to the IDF, the operations made it possible to eliminate:
more than 250 drones
multiple unmanned aerial vehicle launchers
several launch sites used for attacks against Israel
