The Israeli strike on Iran's Parchin military complex in late October will make it much harder for Iran to develop a nuclear explosive device if it chooses to do so, two Israeli officials told Axios.

A secret Iranian nuclear weapons research facility was destroyed in Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic last month, according to US and Israeli sources. Satellite imagery showed the Taleghan 2 site reduced to two piles of rubble by Israel’s October 25 strikes.

Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military facilities in late October destroyed an active nuclear weapons research facility at the Parchin military complex, near Tehran, according to a report, citing US a

The news outlet quoted the American and Israeli authorities as claiming that Israeli airstrikes damaged an "active secret nuclear weapons research facility" in Parchin, Iran. The authorities argued that this was a significant loss that the country had to endure and a major setback in Tehran's efforts to restart its nuclear weapons research program.

The sophisticated equipment destroyed in the attack was essential for shaping and testing plastic explosives that encase uranium in a nuclear device.