Israel on Monday carried out a fresh round of attacks on Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site south of Tehran, Iranian state television reported.
“The aggressor attacked the Fordo nuclear site again," Tasnim news agency reported, quoting a spokesperson for the crisis management authority in Qom province, where the site is located.
The development was later confirmed by Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, who said his country was attacking with “unprecedented intensity", targets in central Tehran.
There was no immediate word on the damage at the site.
Meanwhile, loud blasts were heard in northern Tehran.
Blasts were also heard in Jerusalem after the Israeli army warned of Iranian missile strikes.
On Sunday, the United States unleashed on Iran’s Fordo fuel enrichment plant its massive “bunker-buster" bombs, widely seen as the best chance of damaging or destroying the facility built deep into a mountain and untouched during Israel’s week-long offensive, according to the Associated Press.
Air Force General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said 14 of the bombs were used in Sunday’s attack on Fordo and a second target.
The US is the only military capable of dropping the weapons, and the movement of B-2 stealth bombers toward Asia on Saturday had signalled possible activity by the US Israeli leaders had made no secret of their hopes that President Donald Trump would join their week-old war against Iran, though they had also suggested they had backup plans for destroying the site.
