A previously undisclosed location connected to the Iranian regime’s nuclear program is reportedly nothing more than rubble.
That’s according to a briefing by the IDF Spokesman, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, on Tuesday.
Defrin indicated that months of surveillance and tracking since the American B-2 bombing of Iran’s nuclear program had finally paid dividends.
Those dividends came in the form of actionable intelligence, and bombs dropped.
The specific target could almost get lost in the ever-expanding list of targets being hit by ongoing US and Israeli strikes in Iran:
Explosions sounded in Iran’s capital city as its war with the U.S. and Israel entered a fifth day following earlier strikes on an Iranian nuclear site and retaliatory strikes by the Islamic Republic across the Gulf region. https://t.co/tODIoTs1uS
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) March 4, 2026
The IDF spelled out the operation a tad more than Stars and Stripes…
Noting that the ‘compound’ had been located after a little clandestine tracking.
The IDF, having identified known nuclear scientists working for the Ayatollah, tracked the good scientists on their way to and from the new, super-secret location:
🎯 NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT SITE STRUCK
The covert ‘Minzadehei’ compound was used by a group of nuclear scientists who operated to develop a key component for nuclear weapons.
Using intelligence, the IDF tracked the activities at this new location, removing a key component… pic.twitter.com/xwXQud49gN
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 3, 2026
Here’s the full text of that post from the IDF regarding what they say was A NEW full-fledged underground Iranian nuclear facility:
NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT SITE STRUCK
The covert ‘Minzadehei’ compound was used by a group of nuclear scientists who operated to develop a key component for nuclear weapons.
Using intelligence, the IDF tracked the activities at this new location, removing a key component of the Iranian regime’s capability to develop nuclear weapons.
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President Trump alluded to an ongoing Iranian nuclear program on Monday.
Though the U.S. pushed against it, he indicated the regime continued it’s nuclear work anyway.
Sure enough, the very next day, the IDF came out with the news.
Not only had they located and tracked the scientists, and then surveilled the compound as those Iranian scientists attempted to recover whatever remained of their smoldering nuclear program.
But they ultimately hit the facility, which the Israelis say was a centerpiece of the continued Iranian nuclear program, as reported by ABC News:
Since the United States and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran over the weekend, nearly 2,000 targets throughout the country have been struck, according to the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Government and military sites, including Iran’s ballistic missile program, have been among the targets of what American forces have dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” according to U.S. Central Command.
ADVERTISEMENTTrump said Monday that the U.S. had warned Iran not to rebuild its nuclear program following the attack last year on the country’s nuclear facilities, “but they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons.”
The IDF said Tuesday it targeted a compound that it claimed is linked the regime’s nuclear weapons “capabilities.”
The IDF said in a statement that it conducted a “precise strike on the covert underground compound” that “removes a key component in the Iranian regime’s capability to develop nuclear weapons.” (Emphasis added.)
There is currently no confirmed video of the attack on this specific “underground compound”.
But the location is purported to be in the same area to the northeast of Tehran as Pardis — a suburb of Tehran.
And it just so happens that Fox News shared a clip Tuesday of airstrikes in the area of Pardis.
Including strikes reported to include “suspected underground military sites”:
TARGETED FIRE: The U.S. and Israel unleash airstrikes on Pardis, a city near Tehran, targeting technology parks and suspected underground military sites on the fourth day of Operation Epic Fury. pic.twitter.com/47ECrzYxeZ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2026
I still haven’t been able to confirm if those strikes are on this specific secret facility highlighted by the IDF.
But I haven’t been able to rule it out, either.
I’m sure in 2026 there was quite a bit of fancy technology used in the intelligence gathering for this operation.
Though, the IDF Spokesman’s description of the surveillance leading up to the strike on the compound sounds like something out of “Spy Game” (one of my favorites!).
Essentially, Israeli surveillance of scientists following the destruction of other nuclear sites at the hands of the US military ultimately led to the new location.
That’s according to this report from the Times of Israel:
Israeli Air Force jets on Tuesday destroyed a secret underground site on the outskirts of Tehran where Iran transferred much of its nuclear program after the war with Israel in June, the IDF said.
In a press conference, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin also said the military has dropped more munitions on Iran in the current, four-day-old US-Israeli bombing campaign than in the entire 12 days of June’s Operation Rising Lion.
Following that war, in which Israel and the US targeted Iranian nuclear sites, Iran “did not halt its military nuclear activity, and continued to develop the capabilities required for nuclear weapons, while transferring infrastructure to an underground site protected from aerial attack,” said Defrin.
At “Minzadehei,” the facility that housed the underground site, a group of nuclear scientists “worked secretly to develop capabilities required for nuclear weapons,” Defrin said. The IDF monitored the Iranian nuclear scientists’ activities and “located their new place of operation at this site, enabling a precise strike on the secret compound,” he added. (Emphasis added.)
One minute, Iranian scientists are debating the finer points of terrorizing the world with nukes.
The next minute… the debate had ended.
Permanently, if we’re lucky.
While the remaining Iranian Naval assets find their way to the bottom of the ocean, and various regime top dogs find themselves unalived, one after another…
I have to wonder — are there any more of these “secret” sites buried underground, full of nuclear scientists hard at work trying to give the Ayatollahs ‘the bomb’?
If there are, I can only hope the Israelis — or our own guys — find them.
And quickly end any onsite debates with however many bunker busters as it takes.
Done, and done.
How do you feel about it?



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