Israel’s military has confirmed an airstrike on the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tehran, earlier reported by Iranian state media.
The Israeli Air Force carried out an “extensive series of intelligence-based strikes” on a number of targets in the capital, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement, reports CNN.
“The targets included the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters, the headquarters of the SPND nuclear project, and additional targets, which advanced the Iranian regime’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and where the Iranian regime hid its nuclear archive,” said the IDF statement.
Despite advancing its uranium enrichment significantly, Iran has repeatedly said that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and denied that it was developing an atomic bomb.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency earlier reported that the strike caused minor damage to one of the ministry’s administrative buildings. A separate strike in the same area hit the defense ministry’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, Tasnim reported.
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