Israeli military have attacked Iran’s Fordow nuclear site

According to Israeli and U.S. officials, Israel has conducted new strikes linked to Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, focusing on roads and access routes around the underground enrichment facility rather than the buried installation itself. These attacks came shortly after large-scale U.S. strikes that used bunker‑buster munitions against Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and U.S. military officials say likely caused very significant damage to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure at those sites. Fordow, built deep inside a mountain near Qom, is one of Iran’s key uranium enrichment locations and a central concern in long‑running disputes over the scope and intent of Tehran’s nuclear program. The Israeli military has presented the latest action as part of a broader campaign against Iranian government and military targets in response to Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel, carried out amid a sharp regional escalation. By targeting access routes and air defenses around Fordow, Israel appears to be aiming to further restrict Iran’s ability to repair, supply or operate the already‑hit facility, while leaving the most extensive direct physical damage to the earlier U.S. operation. International nonproliferation advocates and some governments warn that repeated strikes on nuclear‑related facilities risk further undermining diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program and raising the chances of a wider conflict, even as monitoring bodies report no detectable increase in radiation outside the affected sites so far.

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