03/03/2026
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03/03/2026
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WASHINGTON, Mar 3: The United States military has carried out strikes against more than 1,700 targets in Iran, US Central Command said. In a fact sheet, US Central Command said the strikes, which started on Saturday, had targeted Iranian Navy ships, submarines, and anti-ship missile sites along with command and control centers.
President Donald Trump commented on the White House while meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“They have no navy. It’s been knocked out. They have no air force. It’s been knocked out,” Trump said.
He added about Iran: “They have no air detection, that’s been knocked out. Their radar has been knocked out. And, just about everything has been knocked out.”
Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility
Satellite images of Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility taken on Monday show several damaged buildings, compared with imagery from the previous day, along with additional damage across the facility’s complex.
Vantor, an imaging company based in Colorado formerly known as Maxar Technologies, released the images showing the damage that it said affected buildings that house the personnel and vehicle entrances to the underground fuel enrichment complex.
Earlier Tuesday, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said that Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment site sustained “some recent damage” amid a U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign.
No radioactive leakage has been recorded at the Natanz nuclear facility after US and Israeli strikes, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
Iran's ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday that the facility had been struck during military operations by the US and Israel against his country.
The nuclear facility at Natanz is located nearly 220 kilometers (135 miles) southeast of Tehran, and is Iran’s main enrichment site. It had been targeted by airstrikes in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June.
Meanwhile, Communications into Iran remain unstable, with the internet largely blocked. The resident of north Tehran messaged The Associated Press before dawn on Tuesday and spoke on the condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
He said a major blast rattled his building on Monday. “I was by the window and felt the shockwave. Pretty scary, then saw the smoke,” he said.
Most stores in the normally bustling area of Tajrish were closed, he added. Iran has declared an official mourning period following the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the first wave of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
