Air Delivered event in Natanz Nuclear Facility, Iran, Islamic Republic of on Sun 1st March 2026

VIENNA/WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Commercial satellite imagery has captured ​what appears to be the first known strikes on an Iranian nuclear site since the start of the U.S.-Israeli air operation, an independent ‌policy institute said on Monday. The Institute for Science and International Security said imagery produced by Colorado-based Vantor showed two strikes on access points to the underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, which was hit by the U.S. last June. David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector and founder of the institute, said the strikes appeared to have occurred sometime between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning local time, based on ​the satellite imagery his group reviewed. He was unable to identify whether the U.S. or Israel hit the Natanz complex, one of the main facilities of ​Iran's nuclear program. He credited Ben Tzion Macales, an Israeli geo-analyst, as being the first to find satellite imagery of the Natanz strikes.