Tehran (AFP) – The US military declared on Saturday it had damaged an Iranian bunker housing weapons threatening oil and gas shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, as thousands of Iranians marked Eid al-Fitr with prayer.
A combination of satellite images shows a closer view of the Natanz Nuclear Facility on 1 March, 2026 (top), and the Natanz Nuclear Facility with new building damage, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, 2 March, 2026 (bottom).
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Admiral Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command, said US war planes had dropped 5,000-pound bombs on an underground fa
