<p>Dubai: The Israeli military said on Thursday it had targeted the nuclear reactor in the area of Arak in Iran overnight and struck what it called a nuclear weapons development site in the area of Natanz.</p><p>Among its nuclear sites, Iran had a partially built heavy-water research reactor originally called Arak and now Khondab.</p>.Iran, Israel trade fresh air attacks as Trump weighs US involvement. <p>At Natanz, which has been previously struck during Israel's six-day-old aerial war with Iran, Iran built a complex at the heart of its nuclear programme that included two enrichment plants.</p><p>Heavy-water reactors pose a nuclear proliferation risk because they can easily produce plutonium which, like enriched uranium, can be used to make the core of an atom bomb. </p>
<p>Dubai: The Israeli military said on Thursday it had targeted the nuclear reactor in the area of Arak in Iran overnight and struck what it called a nuclear weapons development site in the area of Natanz.</p><p>Among its nuclear sites, Iran had a partially built heavy-water research reactor originally called Arak and now Khondab.</p>.Iran, Israel trade fresh air attacks as Trump weighs US involvement. <p>At Natanz, which has been previously struck during Israel's six-day-old aerial war with Iran, Iran built a complex at the heart of its nuclear programme that included two enrichment plants.</p><p>Heavy-water reactors pose a nuclear proliferation risk because they can easily produce plutonium which, like enriched uranium, can be used to make the core of an atom bomb. </p>