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1. Iranian strike on Dimona likely targeted Israeli nuclear facility
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 04:25 PM
Saturday
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce84073mr06t
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The Israeli authorities say they are investigating how an Iranian missile got through air defences to make impact in the southern town of Dimona, injuring at least 47 people.

What is clear, however, is why Tehran was aiming at that area.

Some 13km outside Dimona there is a facility that has long been accepted as holding Israel's undeclared arsenal of nuclear weapons. Officially, the site is said to focus solely on research. But for around six decades, it's been an open secret that Israel developed a nuclear bomb there, even if each succeeding government has maintained a position of ambiguity over this.
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Iran itself has confirmed that it was the target of this attack, saying that the strike on Dimona was in response to what it said was an earlier attack by the US/Israeli air campaign against its nuclear facility in Natanz.
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