Israeli air strikes hit many Iranian nuclear sites. This is what we know about them.

The Israeli army targeted Iranian nuclear facilities, research scientists and senior military leaders in Dozens of preventive air strikes Early Friday morning in what was called “RISING Lion.“

The strikes – which the Israeli Defense Forces said included “more than 330 different ammunition” on more than 100 Goals in Iran – Pay Iran to About 100 missiles launched In Israel in a later revenge attack on Friday. The Israeli Defense Army said that the Iron Defense Defense system intercepted most of the missiles, and US officials confirmed that the United States helped Israel intercept Iranian missiles.

Israeli Defense Army spokesman. General Evi Deferene claimed that intelligence showed that “the Iranian regime has made great progress in achieving nuclear ability and its ability to act against us,” describing it as an emerging and existential threat to Israel. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said the United States was not involved in Israeli air strikes in Iran.

The attacks came one day after the Council of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency control Iran for the first time in 20 years for not working with its inspectors. Iran immediately announced that it would establish a third site for enrichment in the country and exchange some centrifuges for more advanced.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is the World Nuclear Agency in Vienna. He – she He said in a secret report last month Iran has increased its inventory of enriched uranium to levels close to weapons, and called on Tehran to change the path urgently and comply with the agency’s probe.

On Friday, President Trump urged Iran “To conclude a deal, before not leaving something” and agreeing to new restrictions on its nuclear program While he can still. The President has already said that Iran could not be allowed to enrich uranium, a term that Iran was not ready to accept. Steve Whittov, the president’s envoy in the Middle East, had held a sixth round of talks with Iran in the Gulf state on Sunday.

Here is a look at some major Iranian sites and their importance in the Tehran program.

Natanz enrichment facility

Iran’s nuclear facility is located in Natanz, which is located about 135 miles southeast of Tehran, the country’s main enrichment location.

Part of the facility in the Iranian underground central plateau to defense against potential air strikes. It runs multiple, or groups of centrifuges that work together to enrich uranium more quickly.

Iran is also the suspect on a cold day in terms of gasOr Pickax Mountain, which exceeds the southern Natanz fence. Natanz was targeted by the Stuxnet computer, which is believed to be an Israeli and American creation, which destroyed the Iranian centrifugal. Two of two separate attacks for sabotage, attributed to Israel, have struck the facility.

in Friday certificate before the United Nations On the Israeli strike, the Director General of the Perfect Ears, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said that Iran confirmed that the fuel fertilization factory in Natanz had been attacked. He said that the above ground part of the factory, as Iran was producing uranium, fertilizing up to 60 % “destroyed”, and the centrifuge was damaged. He said that the Iranian authorities also reported attacks on the Fordo Fuel Factory and the Spanhan site.

Fordo enriching attachment

Iran’s nuclear facility is located in Fordo, about 60 miles southwest of Tehran. It also hosts the centrifugal waterfalls, but it is not a large facility like Natanz.

Burn under a mountain and protected from anti -aircraft batteries, Fordo appears to be designed to withstand air strikes.

Its construction began at least in 2007, according to the International session Agency, although Iran informed the United Nations Nuclear Agency only about the facility in 2009 after Western intelligence agencies in the United States and its allies became aware of its existence.

Bushehr Nuclear Energy Station

The only commercial nuclear power plant in Iran in Bushehr On the Persian Gulf, about 465 miles south of Tehran. Building at the factory began under the leadership of Shah Muhammad Reza Bahlafi in Iran in the mid -seventies of the twentieth century. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the factory was repeatedly targeted in the Iraqi war. Russia later completed the construction of the facility.

Iran builds other reactors like on the site. Bushehr is fed by the uranium produced in Russia, not Iran, and is monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Arak heavy water reactor

Arak heavy water reactor It is 155 miles southwest of Tehran. Heavy water helps cold nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a secondary product that can be used in nuclear weapons. It would provide Iran another way to the bomb outside the enriched uranium, in case of selecting weapons. Iran agreed, according to its 2015 nuclear deal with the global powers to redesign the facility to alleviate the deployment concerns.

US withdraw From the International Nuclear Agreement known as JCPOA, or a joint comprehensive work plan, in 2018, Iran partially withdrew in 2019.

ISFAHAN Nuclear Technology Center

The facility, in ISHAN, is employing, about 215 miles southeast of Tehran, thousands of nuclear scientists. It is also home to three Chinese research reactors and laboratories linked to the country’s atomic program.

Tehran research reactor

The Tehran Research reactor is located at the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Organization in Iran, which is the civil body that oversees the country’s atomic program. In fact, the United States presented Iran the reactor in 1967 as part of the American “Science of Peace” program during the Cold War. It was initially required highly enriched uranium, but it was later updated to use low -fertilized uranium due to spreading concerns.

Catherine Watsonand

Melissa Quinn and

Margaret Brennan

He contributed to this report.