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

The Israeli military said it inflicted "significant damage" on Iran's Natanz enrichment site. The IDF said in a statement Friday afternoon that it had hit the underground complex at Natanz, which includes a multilevel enrichment hall containing centrifuges,

Israel launched attacks on Iran’s Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow nuclear sites, targeting scientists and infrastructure to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

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’.

A strike on a live nuclear reactor could unleash radioactive leakage capable of endangering civilian populations hundreds of kilometers away, depending on the severity of the breach.

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,

Iran’s state news agency IRNA said hundreds of ballistic missiles had been launched in retaliation for Israel’s biggest ever attacks on Iran, blasting Iran’s huge underground nuclear site at Natanz an