{"id":535423,"date":"2026-07-10T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535423\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:55:07","slug":"iran-attempting-to-restore-nuclear-sites-damaged-in-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535423\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran attempting to restore nuclear sites damaged in war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran is attempting to restore nuclear sites damaged during the US and Israel’s Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion,<\/a> according to a Friday CNN report based on satellite imagery of the sites.<\/p>\n

The imagery was reportedly captured in June and July and allegedly showed nuclear sites in Iran’s Parchin and Pickaxe Mountain<\/a> being repaired.<\/p>\n

American and Israeli airstrikes struck and damaged the sites multiple times over the course of the operations.<\/p>\n

Analyzed by CNN in conjunction with the Institute for Science and Security, the Parchin<\/a> imagery reportedly showed temporary coverings placed over impact holes from US and Israeli strikes, which were then replaced with mesh coverings a few weeks later.<\/p>\n

Concrete mixing trucks were also visible in the imagery, indicating that Iran may be preparing to seal the impact holes, experts told CNN.<\/p>\n

Additional imagery from Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain facility showed construction vehicles moving in and out of the underground site, which CNN noted may amount to a violation of the recently signed US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).<\/p>\n

The MoU requires Iran to maintain the status quo at all nuclear sites, CNN noted.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that the MoU was over<\/a> during a press conference at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.<\/p>\n

Images of Iran’s Isfahan<\/a>, Fordow, and Natanz nuclear sites did not seem to indicate any restoration efforts, CNN reported.<\/p>\n

In addition to nuclear sites, CNN shared imagery of repair attempts at damaged Iranian missile bases. Repairs are also visible at Iran’s Tabriz airbase, which showed what appeared to be a runway crater being filled in with concrete.<\/p>\n

According to CNN, regional satellite imagery was initially censored by the US government, but a recent loosening in restrictions allowed outlets to share such photos more easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran is attempting to restore nuclear sites damaged during the US and Israel’s Operation Epic Fury and Operation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,47,43,8679,157282,157283,40,38,41,39,11605],"class_list":["post-535423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-nuclear-weapon","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uranium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}