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Kituo cha kijeshi cha Parchin kilikuwa na vifaa vya kubuni milipuko kwa ajili ya matumizi katika bomu la nyuklia. Mkuu wa Shirika la Kimataifa la Nishati ya Atomiki (IAEA) ametembelea maeneo ya nyuklia ya Iran, huku Iran ikiripotiwa kuahidi kwamba haitajaribu kumuua Trump.
Picha ya setilaiti kutoka Planet Labs PBC inaonyesha majengo yaliyoharibiwa katika kituo cha kijeshi cha Parchin nje ya Tehran, Iran, tarehe 27 Oktoba 2024. Miundo iliyoharibiwa inapatikana kwenye kona ya chini kulia na katikati ya picha hiyo.
Kwa mujibu wa ripoti ya tovuti ya habari ya Axios, Israel ilishambulia kituo cha Parchin mwezi uliopita, ikiangamiza kituo cha utafiti wa silaha za nyuklia kilichokuwa kikiendelea kufanya kazi. Ripoti hiyo, iliyotolewa Ijumaa, ilinukuu maafisa watatu wa Marekani, mmoja wa sasa wa Israel, na mmoja wa zamani wa Israel.
Mashambulizi hayo yalifanyika kama sehemu ya operesheni iliyodumu kwa saa kadhaa mnamo Oktoba 26, na yalikuwa majibu ya shambulizi la awali la Iran dhidi ya Israel. Shambulizi hilo liliharibu vifaa vya hali ya juu vilivyotumika kubuni milipuko inayoweza kuzunguka uranium katika kifaa cha nyuklia, jambo lililosababisha hasara kubwa katika juhudi za Iran za kuendeleza utafiti wa silaha za nyuklia.
Jisomeeni wenyewe hapo chini kwa kimombo:
Israel targeted secret nuclear weapons research in Iran strikes last month — report
Parchin military base held equipment to design explosives for use in a nuclear bomb; IAEA chief tours Iran nuclear sites; Iran reportedly promises it won’t try and kill Trump
By ToI Staff and Reuters
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows damaged buildings at Iran's Parchin military base outside of Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. The damaged structures are in the bottom right corner and bottom center of the image. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows damaged buildings at Iran's Parchin military base outside of Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. The damaged structures are in the bottom right corner and bottom center of the image. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
Israel’s airstrikes in Iran last month destroyed an active nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin, the Axios news site reported Friday, citing three US officials, one current Israeli official and one former Israeli official.
The report came as the UN nuclear watchdog prepares to vote on censuring Iran for refusing to cooperate with its inspectors, and amid a report that the Islamic Republic told the Biden administration last month it would not seek to assassinate US president-elect Donald Trump.
According to Axios, an Israeli strike on Parchin — part of an hours-long operation on October 26, which came in response to an earlier Iranian attack on Israel — destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the explosives that could surround uranium in a nuclear device, significantly damaging Iran’s efforts to resume its nuclear weapons research.
The “Taleghan 2” complex was already known to have been targeted in the strikes — as testified by satellite imagery — and was already recognized as having been a site of Iran’s earlier nuclear program which officially shut down in 2003.
US and Israeli intelligence reportedly began to detect new activity at the site earlier this year, including computer modeling, metallurgy and research on explosives, that would be relevant to creating a nuclear device.
“They conducted scientific activity that could lay the ground for the production of a weapon. It was a top-secret thing. A small part of the Iranian government knew about this, but most of the Iranian government didn’t,” a US official told Axios.
In this illustrative image, an Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through a facility just outside the Iranian city of Isfahan, March 30, 2005. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
Knowledge of the research at Taleghan 2 reportedly prompted the US Director of National Intelligence to change its official assessment of Iran’s nuclear program in August, which had previously noted Iran was “not currently undertaking” the activities necessary to produce a testable nuclear device.
Israel is not known to have hit other nuclear sites in the October 26 airstrikes, when dozens of Israeli aircraft took out air drone and ballistic missile manufacturing and launch sites, as well as air defense batteries.
The US urged Israel to refrain from hitting nuclear sites in the attack, to avoid triggering a major escalation with Iran, though it endorsed Israel’s move in responding to Iran’s October 1 attack on Israel, when the Islamic Republic shot 181 ballistic missiles at Israel, its second such direct attack since April.
According to Axios, Israel made an exception for Taleghan 2, because the site was not part of Iran’s declared nuclear program — which the Islamic Republic denies has a military component, but acknowledges as a supposedly civilian enterprise.
Had Iran acknowledged the significance of the attack, it would have in the process admitted its own violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
“The strike was a not-so-subtle message that the Israelis have significant insight into the Iranian system even when it comes to things that were kept top secret and known to a very small group of people in the Iranian government,” a US official told Axios.
Kituo cha kijeshi cha Parchin kilikuwa na vifaa vya kubuni milipuko kwa ajili ya matumizi katika bomu la nyuklia. Mkuu wa Shirika la Kimataifa la Nishati ya Atomiki (IAEA) ametembelea maeneo ya nyuklia ya Iran, huku Iran ikiripotiwa kuahidi kwamba haitajaribu kumuua Trump.
Picha ya setilaiti kutoka Planet Labs PBC inaonyesha majengo yaliyoharibiwa katika kituo cha kijeshi cha Parchin nje ya Tehran, Iran, tarehe 27 Oktoba 2024. Miundo iliyoharibiwa inapatikana kwenye kona ya chini kulia na katikati ya picha hiyo.
Kwa mujibu wa ripoti ya tovuti ya habari ya Axios, Israel ilishambulia kituo cha Parchin mwezi uliopita, ikiangamiza kituo cha utafiti wa silaha za nyuklia kilichokuwa kikiendelea kufanya kazi. Ripoti hiyo, iliyotolewa Ijumaa, ilinukuu maafisa watatu wa Marekani, mmoja wa sasa wa Israel, na mmoja wa zamani wa Israel.
Mashambulizi hayo yalifanyika kama sehemu ya operesheni iliyodumu kwa saa kadhaa mnamo Oktoba 26, na yalikuwa majibu ya shambulizi la awali la Iran dhidi ya Israel. Shambulizi hilo liliharibu vifaa vya hali ya juu vilivyotumika kubuni milipuko inayoweza kuzunguka uranium katika kifaa cha nyuklia, jambo lililosababisha hasara kubwa katika juhudi za Iran za kuendeleza utafiti wa silaha za nyuklia.
Jisomeeni wenyewe hapo chini kwa kimombo:
Israel targeted secret nuclear weapons research in Iran strikes last month — report
Parchin military base held equipment to design explosives for use in a nuclear bomb; IAEA chief tours Iran nuclear sites; Iran reportedly promises it won’t try and kill Trump
By ToI Staff and Reuters
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows damaged buildings at Iran's Parchin military base outside of Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. The damaged structures are in the bottom right corner and bottom center of the image. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows damaged buildings at Iran's Parchin military base outside of Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. The damaged structures are in the bottom right corner and bottom center of the image. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
Israel’s airstrikes in Iran last month destroyed an active nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin, the Axios news site reported Friday, citing three US officials, one current Israeli official and one former Israeli official.
The report came as the UN nuclear watchdog prepares to vote on censuring Iran for refusing to cooperate with its inspectors, and amid a report that the Islamic Republic told the Biden administration last month it would not seek to assassinate US president-elect Donald Trump.
According to Axios, an Israeli strike on Parchin — part of an hours-long operation on October 26, which came in response to an earlier Iranian attack on Israel — destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the explosives that could surround uranium in a nuclear device, significantly damaging Iran’s efforts to resume its nuclear weapons research.
The “Taleghan 2” complex was already known to have been targeted in the strikes — as testified by satellite imagery — and was already recognized as having been a site of Iran’s earlier nuclear program which officially shut down in 2003.
US and Israeli intelligence reportedly began to detect new activity at the site earlier this year, including computer modeling, metallurgy and research on explosives, that would be relevant to creating a nuclear device.
“They conducted scientific activity that could lay the ground for the production of a weapon. It was a top-secret thing. A small part of the Iranian government knew about this, but most of the Iranian government didn’t,” a US official told Axios.
In this illustrative image, an Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through a facility just outside the Iranian city of Isfahan, March 30, 2005. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
Knowledge of the research at Taleghan 2 reportedly prompted the US Director of National Intelligence to change its official assessment of Iran’s nuclear program in August, which had previously noted Iran was “not currently undertaking” the activities necessary to produce a testable nuclear device.
Israel is not known to have hit other nuclear sites in the October 26 airstrikes, when dozens of Israeli aircraft took out air drone and ballistic missile manufacturing and launch sites, as well as air defense batteries.
The US urged Israel to refrain from hitting nuclear sites in the attack, to avoid triggering a major escalation with Iran, though it endorsed Israel’s move in responding to Iran’s October 1 attack on Israel, when the Islamic Republic shot 181 ballistic missiles at Israel, its second such direct attack since April.
According to Axios, Israel made an exception for Taleghan 2, because the site was not part of Iran’s declared nuclear program — which the Islamic Republic denies has a military component, but acknowledges as a supposedly civilian enterprise.
Had Iran acknowledged the significance of the attack, it would have in the process admitted its own violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
“The strike was a not-so-subtle message that the Israelis have significant insight into the Iranian system even when it comes to things that were kept top secret and known to a very small group of people in the Iranian government,” a US official told Axios.
