We reported earlier the comments from IAEA chief Rafael Grossi about his concerns that Israel might mount an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Grossi said that even when the sites reopen, inspectors will stay away for at least a day “until we see that the situation is completely calm”. News agency AFP have made a list of previous times that Israel is believed to have attacked nuclear facilities belonging to other states in the region.
In 1981, it bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And in 2018, it admitted to having launched a top-secret air raid against a reactor in Syria 11 years prior. In 2010, a cyberattack using the Stuxnet virus, attributed by Tehran to Israel and the US, led to a series of breakdowns in Iranian centrifuges used for uranium enrichment. Israel is also accused by Tehran of having assassinated two Iranian nuclear physicists in 2010, and of having kidnapped another the previous year.