The above-ground pilot enrichment plant at Iran's Natanz nuclear site has been destroyed, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday on Israel's strikes on Iran.

Israeli defense officials believe damage to major facility is significant, while other enrichment facility at Fordo, nuclear sites in Isfahan, Busheir reportedly not targeted

Iran’s main enrichment facility which is around 225 kilometres south of Tehran – multiple times on Friday. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that the facility was ‘seriously damaged’.

A strike on a live nuclear reactor could unleash radioactive leakage capable of endangering civilian populations hundreds of kilometers away, depending on the severity of the breach.

Addressing the UN Security Council, IAEA chief stated that while the underground centrifuge halls at Natanz remain intact, the above-ground infrastructure was destroyed, resulting in contamination at the site.

Iran’s state news agency IRNA said hundreds of ballistic missiles had been launched in retaliation for Israel’s biggest ever attacks on Iran, blasting Iran’s huge underground nuclear site at Natanz an