Netanyahu says Israel destroyed main facility of Iran nuclear site Natanz

WASHINGTON: Israeli forces have destroyed the principle uranium enrichment facility of Iran's Natanz nuclear site, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, as the Middle Eastern arch-foes intensify their confrontation.

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"We've destroyed the main facility in Natanz. That's the main enrichment facility," Netanyahu told US network Fox News, two days after the United Nations nuclear watchdog said a key aboveground component of Natanz where Iran was producing uranium enriched up to 60 percent had been destroyed.