IAEA says no radiation leaked from Natanz after Iran claims facility was struck

Published March 21, 2026 12:49pm ET



The United Nations nuclear safety watchdog said on Saturday that no radiation has been leaked from the premises of the Natanz Nuclear Facility after Iran said the site was hit in an airstrike.

This marks the latest targeted strike on an Iranian nuclear facility since the United States and Israel began their military operations against the Islamic regime and its nuclear program on Feb. 28. A joint U.S.-Israel strike hit Natanz in the first week of the war, targeting the central site of its nuclear enrichment program off the bat, 9 months after U.S. bunker buster bombs hit the facility in June 2025’s Operation Midnight Hammer.

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