When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had struck “Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz,” he was signalling the scope of his country’s ambitions in the largest strike it has ever aimed at Iran: It sought to destroy the beating heart of the Iranian nuclear program.
The Natanz facility is where Iran has produced the vast majority of its nuclear fuel – and, in the past three years, much of the near-bomb-grade fuel that has put the country on the threshold of building nuclear weapons.
