The IDF on Thursday said it had struck Iran's advanced explosives experiments nuclear facility at Parchin-Taleghan 2. On February 2, multiple satellite photo providers put out pictures of the latest Iranian efforts to conceal the status of their nuclear program rebuilding efforts at Natanz, Isfahan, and Parchin-Taleghan 2. Parchin-Taleghan 2 had previously served as an AMAD-era nuclear weapons group site relating to explosives testing and is just south of Tehran.
On March 8, despite doubts about recent Israeli military claims of having destroyed a secret nuclear site, which was critical and potentially dangerous for future Islamic regime plans to develop a nuclear weapon, The Jerusalem Post exclusively confirmed with Israeli sources the severity of the site. On March 3, IDF Chief Spokesman Brig, Gen. Efi Deffrin revealed in a press conference that the air force had destroyed a secret Iranian nuclear weapons development site.
Naming the site as Min Zadai, on the northeast outskirts of Tehran, Deffrin said that the site was related to weapons group developments. He said that IDF intelligence followed nuclear scientists who tried to travel there clandestinely. From following these scientists, he said that the IDF was able to learn about the dangerous nature of these activities, for helping Tehran potentially start to rehabilitate aspects of weapons development for a nuclear bomb. Most of the global media attention focuses on uranium enrichment since that is the hardest issue to conquer and can take many years to master.
But without a number of weapons components being developed, enriched uranium can not be delivered as a weapon. Prior to the Israel-Iran War of June 2025, Natanz was Iran's largest site for enriching uranium, containing the vast majority of its centrifuges, situated around 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of the capital. It was a mix of above and below-ground facilities. (Read More)
