Ambassador Leiter: US, Israel destroy key Iranian nuclear program facilities

Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes as part of Operation “Epic Fury” have damaged Iran’s missile and nuclear program, destroying key command centers, missile launchers, and radar stations, Israel’s ambassador to the United States said on March 3.

According to Caliber.Az, Ambassador Yehiel (Michael) Leiter stated in a video posted on platform X that the attacks prevented Tehran from combining enriched uranium with missile delivery systems, a crucial step toward developing nuclear weapons.

Here with the evening update from outside our situation room: today we eliminated a covert underground nuclear compound in Iran.

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— Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter (@yechielleiter) March 4, 2026

“Together with the United States and Epic Fury, we have eliminated most of the radar stations in western Iran, the missile launchers, both surface-to-surface and surface-to-air. Today in Tehran, we took out the fourth of the four command centers, three we took out yesterday, creating chaos within the ranks of the Ayatollah regime. This creates a chink in the chain of command where they’re not able to send messages down the system onto the field, and that’s part of the reason we’re seeing the chaos of the Iranians firing ballistic missiles into all its neighbors all at once," Leiter said.

“The most important site we took out today was a site where they intended to pair nuclear enriched uranium with a missile delivery system. See, that’s the issue. When you’re talking about nuclear missiles, you have to take a delivery system and the enriched uranium and pair them together. That’s key when it comes to timing, because if we would have delayed these operations, they would have reached a point very soon where this impenetrable site would not have been able to be destroyed, and that’s why we had to act," he added.