Around 2:00 AM tonight, six explosions were heard in Iran’s capital city, Tehran and Raj. Half an hour later, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that they were “accurately attacking military targets in Iran.” According to foreign reports, the Air Force attacked about 20 targets, including air defense systems, missile and UAV production facilities, and launch sites.
Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Air Force Commander Tomer Bar ran the complex operation 3200 miles away. The attack included intelligence, dozens of fighter jets, including F-35s, refueling, and a rescue system.
Israeli source told NBC News that no nuclear or oil facilities were attacked. “We are harming things that have threatened us in the past or may threaten us in the future,” said the source.
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Iran’s official news agency, Tasnim, reported that Iran reserves the right to respond to any Israeli aggression. However, Tehran has not issued a concrete threat as of now.
The secret base
According to Israeli Ynet News and its commentator Ron Ben Yishai, the secret base Israel Attacked tonight is Perchin, 48 miles east of Teheran.
The first time the International Atomic Energy Agency mentioned Perchin was In a report from 2011, about four years before the signing of the nuclear agreement. The report noted that Iran had built a facility at the Perchin military base for conducting hydrodynamic experiments, which “indicates the possible development of nuclear weapons,” according to the report. Perchin is one of the main bases in Iran’s nuclear program and in its underground bunkers, where attempts are made to simultaneously activate explosives that are part of the bomb mechanism, as well as hydrodynamic experiments related to the development of nuclear weapons.
Ron Ben Yishai noted in the past, it was claimed that in Perchin, there is a facility where the Iranians are trying to develop the envelope of conventional explosives that will envelop the two halves of the ball of enriched uranium to start the nuclear reaction.
Ben Yishai then explained that this shell has to explode all at once with a precision of nanoseconds, so special fasteners called krytrons are installed in it. These fasteners schedule the shell’s explosion and thereby initiate the beginning of the reaction—which means a nuclear explosion.
If the reports that Israel attacked the facility in Perchin, it seems that the goal was to thwart the ability of the Iranians to carry out experiments that would advance it in the production of the bomb itself, if and when it decides.
