Satellite images show damage to Iranian nuclear facility

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Satellite images show multiple destroyed buildings at Natanz, one of Iran's most important nuclear facilities, after Israeli forces launched airstrikes on Friday.

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00:00On Friday, Israeli forces launched airstrikes against Natanz, one of Iran's most important nuclear facilities.

00:07Satellite images showed multiple destroyed buildings at Natanz.

00:10We can only see damage at the surface level.

00:12Part of the facility is located several floors underground,

00:15and can likely only be targeted by heavy bunker-buster bombs that Israel doesn't have in its arsenal.

00:21The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief said that some above-ground uranium enrichment facilities

00:27and electrical infrastructure at Natanz were destroyed.

00:30The strikes also caused radiological and chemical contamination inside facilities at Natanz,

00:36though no leaks have been detected externally.

00:39Israel confirmed that it carried out strikes on other Iranian nuclear facilities,

00:43including Isfahan, which is home to three Chinese research reactors.

00:47Satellite imagery shows some destruction at the Isfahan facility.

00:51U.S. officials said Washington was not involved in Israel's offensive strikes.

00:55However, an official told Business Insider that American sea- and land-based forces played a role

01:00in helping defend Israel from the Iranian retaliatory missile strikes.

01:05Israeli officials said the strikes on Friday aimed to degrade Iran's nuclear program

01:09in order to prevent the country from making a weapon.

01:12Tehran has said that its nuclear ambitions are civilian.

01:15Iran has retaliated by launching missiles and drones at Israel.

01:19The Israeli attack raises the risk of plunging the region into more violence

01:23and could derail the Trump administration's efforts to reach a new nuclear deal with Iran.

01:28The Israeli attack finds the U.S. officials on the eyewitnesses in the意涯 at the small particle

01:36in its military in between 18Meets and the CO2-709-2009.

01:38The Israeli attack is the ethical impact of the international climate crisis,

01:43the Israeli attack against the sea- and the state of the U.S. and the military.

01:44The Iraqis does not want to pursue any additional evidence-related information in the country and the world,

01:46the safety of the state of the country.

01:48The military attack is the first place where the EU-S.

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