Columns of smoke rose Friday over Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz after Israeli strikes on the country.

Iran’s main enrichment facility which is around 225 kilometres south of Tehran – multiple times on Friday. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that the facility was ‘seriously damaged’.

The Israeli military claims its campaign has eliminated high-value targets, including nine senior scientists, and severely damaged Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Iranian authorities confirmed damage to four critical buildings at the Isfahan uranium conversion facility,