The details was first published on the website of Axios.

The sophisticated equipment destroyed in the attack was essential for shaping and testing plastic explosives that encase uranium in a nuclear device.

Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military facilities in late October destroyed an active nuclear weapons research facility at the Parchin military complex, near Tehran, according to a report, citing US a

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The Israeli strike on Iran's Parchin military complex in late October will make it much harder for Iran to develop a nuclear explosive device if it chooses to do so, two Israeli officials told Axios.

The strike significantly damaged Iran's effort to resume nuclear weapons research, Israeli and U.S. officials said.

BOMBSHELL satellite pictures show how devastating Israeli airstrikes destroyed a secret Iranian nuclear facility which was previously reported to be inactive. The Israeli airforce struck the

The Israeli attack on Iran in late October destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin, according to three U.S. officials, one current Israeli official and one former Israeli official.

The news outlet quoted the American and Israeli authorities as claiming that Israeli airstrikes damaged an "active secret nuclear weapons research facility" in Parchin, Iran. The authorities argued that this was a significant loss that the country had to endure and a major setback in Tehran's efforts to restart its nuclear weapons research program.