Israel Strikes Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Targets in Tehran

Israel Strikes Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Targets in Tehran

Hugh Fitzgerald

On March 21, Israel struck a nuclear research and development site placed inside a university in Teheran. It was also the site used to develop ballistic missiles. The IDF believes that along with the Americans, it has now managed to end Iran’s uranium enrichment effort, but there remains the problem of finding, and seizing or destroying, the 400 kg. of uranium enriched to a near-weapons-grade level of 60% that Iran is known to possess. More on the latest IDF hits on both nuclear and ballistic missile sites can be found here: “IDF strikes Iranian nuclear weapons research, development facility in Tehran,” by Sam Halpern, Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2026:

The Israeli Air Force struck a research and development facility used by the Iranian regime to develop nuclear weapons components in Tehran, the military announced on Saturday.The facility, which was located inside Tehran’s Malek-Ashtar University, was used to develop ballistic missiles in addition to nuclear weapons, the IDF stated.

Earlier on Saturday, the military announced that it had completed “wide-scale” strikes against dozens of Iranian regime targets overnight, including ballistic missile production facilities.

According to the IDF, the strikes “significantly degrade” Iran’s capability to continue producing ballistic missiles.

As part of the air force strikes, which were conducted based on intelligence from the IDF’s intelligence directorate, Israel hit Iranian defense industrial base facilities that produced “critical components for the development of ballistic missiles.”

Among the sites struck were a central Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ballistic missile production and development compound, a missile component storage facility, an Iranian Defense Ministry missile fuel production site, and a missile component production site.

Further, in the same announcement, the military said it had hit “several defense systems of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran” without specifying further. It noted, however, that the strikes were part of efforts to undermine the systems maintaining the regime’s grip on power.

Later on Saturday, the IDF announced that the air force had conducted five strikes on targets in a “large-scale ballistic missiles array site in western Iran.” The military published footage of the strikes, which it said occured in a span of seconds and resulted in the killing of numerous Iranian ballistic missile array personnel….

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