VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog has no indication Israeli and US attacks on Iran have hit any nuclear facilities, its chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday, despite Iran’s envoy stating one was targeted a day earlier.

Iran’s nuclear programme has been among the reasons Israel and the US have given for the attacks, alleging Iran was getting too close to being able to eventually make an atom bomb.

At the same time, what remains of Iran’s atomic facilities after the two militaries attacked them in June appears to have been largely spared in this campaign so far.

“We have no indication that any of the nuclear installations ... have been damaged or hit,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said in a statement to a meeting of his agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors.

While the IAEA’s crisis-response centre has been unable to reach Iran’s nuclear regulatory authorities, there has been some contact with Iranian officials, Grossi later told a press conference.

“We are, of course, in conversation with Iran, but at the moment, it’s very limited. Until last Thursday, it was very intense,” he said, adding that while the IAEA has no staff in Iran at the moment, it is watching satellite images closely.

Tehran has not let the IAEA return to its bombed facilities since they were attacked in June.

Moments after Grossi’s speech, Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Reza Najafi, told reporters outside the closed-door meeting that the nuclear complex at Natanz had been attacked.

“Again they attacked Iran’s peaceful, safeguarded nuclear facilities yesterday,” Najafi said. Asked by Reuters which facilities were hit, he replied: “Natanz” and left.

Natanz housed two uranium-enrichment plants, one the IAEA says was destroyed and an underground one that was at least badly damaged.

Published in Dawn, March 3rd, 2026