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Mar 3 20:45 ET
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Israeli Ambassador Reports Strike on Hidden Underground Nuclear Facility, Fourth Command Center, and Western Iranian Radars

Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter provided an update Tuesday evening from the embassy operations room, stating that most radar stations and missile launchers in western Iran have been destroyed. He announced that Tehran's fourth command center was struck, with three others destroyed the previous day, creating what he described as "chaos in the structure of the Khomeinist government." The most critical target was a hidden underground facility intended to combine enriched uranium with portable missile systems — Leiter warned the site would have become "impenetrable" had strikes been delayed further. He noted Iran has acknowledged possessing 642 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%, which could be upgraded to weapons-grade within one week to produce approximately 11 nuclear warheads.