The airstrikes carried out by Israel at the end of October against Iran hit “an element of the nuclear program” of the Islamic Republic, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
“It is not a secret, it has been published, an element of the nuclear program was hit in this attack but the program itself and its ability to function have not yet been eliminated,” he told the Knesset. Parliament) Mr. Netanyahu, whose country is considered by experts to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East.
On Friday, the American news site Axios reported, citing unidentified American and Israeli officials, that “the October 26 Israeli attack on Iran had ‘destroyed a secret nuclear weapons research center in Parchin,'” about thirty kilometers southeast of Tehran.
“Despite all the actions we have taken, both operationally and politically, [l’Iran] made progress in enrichment [de l’uranium] “, and even if “he still has a long way to go […] We are challenged to act, we government of the State of Israel, and our American friends,” he added.
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