U.S., Israel attack Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility: Iran atomic energy organisation
The United States and Israel struck Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility on Saturday (March 21, 2026), the Islamic republic’s atomic energy organisation said.
“Following the criminal attacks by the United States and the usurping Zionist regime against our country, the… Natanz enrichment complex was targeted this morning,” the organisation said in a statement carried by the Tasnim news agency.
It added that there was “no leakage of radioactive materials reported” in the area in central Iran
Natanz, Iran’s main enrichment site, was hit in the first week of the war and several buildings appeared damaged, according to satellite images. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said that “no radiological consequence” was expected from that earlier strike.
The nuclear facility, located nearly 220 kilometers southeast of Tehran, had been targeted by Israeli airstrikes in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June 2025, and by the United States. — Agencies
