Netanyahu confirms Israel strike against Iran hit nuke programme during October retaliatory strikes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the retaliatory attack Jerusalem launched on Iran in late October degraded part of Tehran’s nuclear programme.

“It’s not a secret,” Netanyahu said in a Knesset speech reported by the Times of Israel. “There is a specific component in their nuclear programme that was hit in this attack.”

Despite the Prime Minister’s comments, it had not previously been confirmed by Israeli officials that Tehran’s coveted nuclear programme, which it has been attempting to beef up since the collapse of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement in 2018, had been targeted in last month’s strike.

Israeli security officials confirmed that military sites had been targeted during the overnight strike on Oct. 26 that caused concern among global leaders about an all-out war as the two Nations ramp up direct lines of attack on one another. The international community, along with the Biden administration, attempted to re-enter into negotiations with Tehran to counter its nuclear development, though to no avail.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), earlier this year warned that Iran’s nuclear program has largely run unchecked for the last six years, and it is believed to have increased its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium metals to 60% purity levels; just shy of weapons-grade uranium, which is enriched to 90% purity.

(Fox News)

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