In late October, an Israeli airstrike destroyed Iran's Taleghan 2 facility near Tehran, previously thought inactive, impacting Iran's nuclear research and destroying sophisticated equipment related to nuclear weapons.

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.