伊朗政权保留关键核武器设施及其用于制造原子弹的材料——高浓缩铀——促使美国和以色列军方加大努力，以摧毁该政权核计划的最后残余。
周五，以色列国防军（IDF）在一份声明中表示，其“空军袭击了阿拉克重水工厂——这是核武器钚生产的关键地点”。阿拉克工厂位于伊朗中部。
袭击发生前，以色列国防军发言人向《福克斯新闻数字版》谈到阿拉克工厂时称，对“铀浓缩设施的袭击‘极有可能’是计划的一部分”。以色列国防军拒绝对其目标清单和是否正在考虑任何地面行动以获取武器级铀等更具体问题作出回应。
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以色列国防军的信息图展示了伊朗阿拉克重水工厂，该工厂被描述为钚生产的关键基础设施。(IDF)
路透社援引伊朗政权媒体法尔斯通讯社的报道称，美以联军周五对霍恩达布重水研究反应堆发动了联合袭击。
以色列国防军在声明中称：“重水是一种用于运行核反应堆（如闲置的阿拉克反应堆）的特殊材料，该反应堆最初设计具备生产武器级钚的能力。这些材料也可作为核武器的中子源。”
声明补充道：“该工厂是恐怖政权的重要经济资产，是伊朗原子能组织的收入来源，每年为该政权创造数千万美元收入。”
伊朗政权外交部长谴责以色列并警告犹太国家：“伊朗将为以色列的罪行付出‘沉重代价’。”
总部位于华盛顿特区的国际科学与安全研究所（ISIS）发表的文章称：“IR-40阿拉克（又称霍恩达布）重水反应堆和重水生产工厂可追溯至21世纪初……反应堆堆芯设计非常适合大量生产武器级钚。”
打击或使伊朗核计划倒退——但不太可能终结，联合国监督机构负责人称
联合反对伊朗核（UANI）政策主任杰森·布罗德斯基告诉《福克斯新闻数字版》：“迄今为止尚未被打击的核设施是‘镐山’（Pickaxe Mountain），因此在‘史诗狂怒’行动中打击该地点对进一步削弱伊朗核计划至关重要。”
白宫发言人将《福克斯新闻数字版》的提问转向特朗普总统内阁会议上关于伊朗核武器计划的评论。特朗普周四表示：“我们可以自由进入他们的城镇并摧毁他们正在建造的所有疯狂核武器、导弹和无人机。”
一张地图显示，2025年6月22日美国在“午夜锤子”行动中打击伊朗福特杜核设施后造成的破坏。(福克斯新闻)
物理学家、国际科学与安全研究所创始人兼所长大卫·阿尔布莱特告诉《福克斯新闻数字版》，对于仍存的关键核武器设施，“最大的问题是纳坦兹和伊斯法罕。伊朗方面透露曾对纳坦兹发动袭击，但以色列称未收到相关袭击消息，因此这一定是美国所为。”
他指出，纳坦兹有浓缩铀。“伊朗正在该地下燃料浓缩工厂进行恢复作业，并继续建造这座镐山隧道复合体，可储存浓缩铀。其旁边还有一个2007年左右建造的隧道复合体……伊朗将其密封并加固，显然那里有重要设施。”
阿尔布莱特称，美以空袭“尚未袭击地下伊斯法罕基地。根据国际原子能机构（IAEA）的报告，该基地存在高浓缩铀。”他补充道：“该地下建筑群可能正在建设一个浓缩工厂，我们希望该地点能遭到袭击。”
伊朗民众在德黑兰市中心举行反以色列集会，声援伊朗最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊，谴责以色列对伊朗的袭击，2025年6月20日。(Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
阿尔布莱特警告称，这场战争不应重蹈2025年美以对伊朗战争的覆辙，当时德黑兰保留了其核武器计划的“皇冠宝石”——高浓缩铀和大量离心机。
他警告：“你不希望战争结束时伊朗拥有与6月底战争结束时相同的核武器能力，甚至更有动力制造炸弹。”他补充称，这就是为何“彻底完成任务”在伊朗如此重要。
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The Iranian regime’s retention of key nuclear weapons facilities and its material for building atomic bombs — highly enriched uranium — has led to new efforts by the U.S. and Israeli militaries to take out the last vestiges of the regime’s program.
On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that, that it’s “Air Force Struck the Arak Heavy Water Plant—A Key Plutonium Production Site for Nuclear Weapons.” The Arak plant is located in central Iran.
Prior to Friday’s attack, an IDF spokesperson told Fox News Digital concerning Arak, that there is a “high estimation”that attacks on “uranium enrichment sites are part of the plan.” The IDF declined to answer more specific questions about its target list and if any ground operations to retrieve the nuclear weapons-grade uranium were being considered.
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An IDF infographic shows Iran’s Arak heavy water plant, described as a key infrastructure for plutonium production.(IDF)
Reuters, quoting regime media outlet Fars, reported that joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Friday hit the Khondab heavy water research reactor.
A statement released by the IDF said, “Heavy water is a unique material used to operate nuclear reactors, such as the inactive Arak reactor, which was originally designed to have weapons-grade plutonium production capabilities. These materials can also be used as a neutron source for nuclear weapons.”
The IDF statement added that “The plant was a significant economic asset for the terror regime and served as a source of income for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, generating tens of millions of dollars for the regime each year.”
The regime’s foreign minister posted a condemnation of Israel and warned the Jewish state, “Iran will exact HEAVY price for Israeli crimes.”
According to an article published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), “The IR-40 Arak, aka Khondab, Heavy Water Reactor and Heavy Water Production Plant date to the early 2000s… The reactor core design was ideal for making substantial amounts of weapon-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons.”
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Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital,”The one nuclear site which hasn’t been hit to date has been Pickaxe Mountain, so striking that site as part of Operation Epic Fury will be important to further degrade the Iranian nuclear program.”
A White House spokesperson referred Fox News Digital to President Trump’s cabinet meeting comments about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Trump said on Thursday, “We’re free to roam over their cities and towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and missiles and drones that they’re building.”
A map shows damage to Iran’s Fordow nuclear site after being struck by the United States in Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22, 2025.(Fox News)
David Albright, a physicist, founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security told Fox News Digital that with respect to key nuclear weapons facilities that remain, “The elephants in the tent are Natanz and Isfahan. There was an attack on Natanz that the Iranians revealed, but the Israelis said we are not aware of an attack. So it must have been the U.S.,” he claimed.
He said that Natanz has enriched uranium. “The Iranians were doing recovery operations in the underground fuel enrichment plant there and continuing to build this pickaxe mountain tunnel complex, which could hold enriched uranium. Right next to it is another tunnel complex that was built much earlier, around 2007… And the Iranians sealed it up, fortified it. There is something obviously important there.”
Albright said U.S. and Israeli airstrikes “have not attacked the underground Isfahan site.We know, according to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], highly enriched uranium is in that site.”He continued that, “There may be an enrichment plant under construction in that underground complex. We would like that site to be attacked.”
Iranian worshippers hold up their hands as signs of unity with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during an anti-Israeli rally to condemn Israel’s attacks on Iran, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on June 20, 2025.(Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Albright warned that the war should not end like the previous U.S.-Israel war with Iran in 2025 with Tehran retaining the “crown jewels” of its atomic weapons program: highly enriched uranium and a number of centrifuges.
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He warned, “You don’t want it to come out of this war with the same kind of nuclear weapons capabilities that it had at the end of June war with a higher incentive to build a bomb.” He added, that is why it’s so important ‘to finish the job,” in Iran.
Benjamin Weinthal reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal, and email him at benjamin.weinthal@fox.com
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