Israel attacks Iranian ‘centrifuge production site’

More than 50 Israeli Air Force planes carried out an attack in Iran in recent hours, targeting an alleged “centrifuge production site” – a key part of uranium enrichment – and “several weapons productions sites” in the country, the Israeli military said.

In a statement posted on Telegram, the military said the latest wave of attacks was carried out as “part of the extensive effort to damage Iran’s nuclear weapons development programme”.

Iran, however, has denied that it is developing nuclear weapons, and the UN watchdog the IAEA as well as the US intelligence community have made similar assessments in their most recent reports.

The Israeli statement said that its warplanes also attacked manufacturing plants involved in the production “of raw materials and components” for assembling surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles.

(With inputs from Al Jazeera)