Explosion
Nuclear Facility
Natanz nuclear site — centrifuge assembly building destroyed by explosion and fire
2 July 2020
Isfahan Province, Iran
Map
33.7240, 51.7270
What happened
An explosion and fire destroyed an above-ground building used to assemble advanced centrifuges at Iran's Natanz uranium-enrichment site. Iran's atomic-energy authorities said there were no casualties or radiological release and later characterized the event as sabotage, blaming Israel. Israel did not publicly acknowledge responsibility, and the precise attack mechanism was not established in the reviewed public evidence. The event occurred on 2 July 2020, not September 2020 as supplied.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Nuclear Facility
- Weather context
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- Latitude
- 33.7240°
- Longitude
- 51.7270°
Attribution
Attributed to Israel (Iranian attribution; Israel did not acknowledge responsibility)🇮🇷
Iran later described the explosion as sabotage and blamed Israel. Public reporting did not establish whether the mechanism was a planted explosive, cyber-physical operation or another cause.