Overview

• Israel’s military warned residents to leave the vicinity of the Arak heavy water reactor in a social media post, highlighting the facility’s potential as a plutonium source.
• Over seven days, Israeli air raids have targeted Iran’s Natanz enrichment site, Isfahan research center, centrifuge workshops near Tehran and other nuclear-related locations.
• Tehran has retaliated with roughly 400 missiles and hundreds of drones, causing at least 24 deaths and injuring hundreds in Israel, including damage to central apartment buildings.
• A Washington-based human rights group reports that Israeli strikes have killed at least 639 people in Iran, including 263 civilians, and wounded more than 1,300.
• The Arak reactor, redesigned under the 2015 nuclear accord to limit plutonium output, has not been inspected since May 14 and the IAEA says it has lost 'continuity of knowledge' over Iran’s heavy water production.