Netanyahu says destroyed main facility of Iran nuclear site Natanz

TEL AVIV: Israeli forces have destroyed the principal uranium enrichment facility of Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, as the Middle Eastern arch-foes intensify their confrontation.

“We’ve destroyed the main facility in Natanz. That’s the main enrichment facility,” Netanyahu told US network Fox News, two days after the United Nations nuclear watchdog said a key aboveground component of Natanz where Iran was producing uranium enriched up to 60 percent had been destroyed.

Israeli PM Netanyahu told Fox News on Sunday that regime change in Iran could be a result of Israel’s military attacks.

Netanyahu, speaking to Fox’s Bret Baier on his “Special Report” programme in one of his first interviews since Israel’s attacks on Iran began on Friday, said he had informed US President Donald Trump ahead of the attacks.

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His statement is in line with an earlier statement by Trump who had said on Friday that he and his team knew everything about Israel’s plan to attack Iran.

On the other hand, air raid sirens and booms also rang out in Jerusalem while missiles flew across the sky on Sunday evening, as Israel and Iran exchanged fire for a third day.

“Sirens sounded in several areas across Israel following the identification of missiles launched from Iran toward the State of Israel,” the military said in a statement.

According to initial reports, the latest Iranian airstrike included four ballistic missiles, hitting significant targets in both the Israeli capital Tel Aviv and city Jerusalem.

Iran also fired ballistic missiles towards Israel earlier in the day, IRNA reported, as President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that his country’s responses to Israeli attacks would be “more decisive and severe” if Israel’s hostile actions continued.