Amid ongoing military operations that have targeted Iran’s Arak heavy-water reactor site, Tehran claims the United States and Israel also struck its key Natanz uranium enrichment complex on Sunday, March 1. According to Iran’s state news agency IRNA, Atomic Energy Organization chief Mohammad Eslami informed IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in a letter that “the criminal regimes of the United States and Israel… again targeted the Natanz nuclear site on Sunday afternoon.” The Institute for Science and International Security claims they have verified the strikes. The buildings visibly destroyed in the low resolution imagery taken by Copernicus on March 2, 2026 ( published by @BenTzionMacales ) at Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant are the personnel entrances and a dummy building covering the only vehicle entrance to the underground site. Iran… pic.twitter.com/FZOb98riIu — Inst for Science (@TheGoodISIS) March 2, 2026 Iran’s IAEA ambassador Reza Najafi repeated the accusation to reporters during Monday’s emergency Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, calling the facilities “peaceful” and “safeguarded.” However, Grossi told the same session that the agency has “no indication that any of the nuclear installations have been damaged or hit.” He added that IAEA monitoring, including satellite imagery, has revealed nothing comparable to the major damage at Natanz […]