Israeli warplanes struck key military sites in Tehran on Saturday night, including the command headquarters of Iran’s Ministry of Defense and the SPND building, according to IRGC-linked Tasnim website.
Iran’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, known by its Persian acronym SPND, is the direct successor organization to Iran’s pre-2004 nuclear weapons program, also referred to as the Amad Project.
Israel in 2020 assassinated Mohsen Fakhrizadeh who led the SPDN.
Iran International reported last year, citing three independent sources in Iran, that the Islamic Republic was advancing its secret nuclear weapons program by restructuring the SPND.
