Iran strikes Dimona in retaliatory response to Israel’s Natanz attack

TEHRAN, Iran (MNTV) — Iran launched a coordinated strike on the southern Israeli city of Dimona, targeting the area surrounding Israel’s nuclear research complex in what Tehran described as a clear retaliation for the joint US-Israeli attack hours earlier on the Natanz enrichment site.

Iranian state television framed the attack as a direct answer to the earlier strike on Natanz, where Iranian officials confirmed that the enrichment complex had been hit but reported no radiation leak.

Tehran condemned the assault as a violation of international law and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, warning that Israel and its American backers had crossed a threshold that would trigger “wider consequences.”

The intensifying exchange, a result of Israeli ascendancy on the destruction ladder, underscored a rapidly widening conflict that now spans from Israel’s Negev desert to the Indian Ocean.

Sirens sounded across southern and northern Israel as multiple Iranian projectiles hit Dimona and nearby areas, injuring at least two dozen people according to early Israeli media reports, with some outlets later citing higher figures.

The strike — the seventh on the city since midnight — struck infrastructure linked to Israel’s secretive nuclear operations, long shielded from international scrutiny.

Israeli emergency services evacuated the wounded as authorities refused to clarify the extent of damage around the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.

The International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged both incidents, confirming the Natanz strike and saying it had detected no abnormal radiation readings in Iran or Israel — though it emphasized that it relied on information provided by Israeli authorities, who continue to maintain secrecy around their undeclared nuclear arsenal.

According to Middle East Eye, a senior Iranian military source told local media that Tehran had shifted away from its previous model of proportional retaliation.

Iran, the source said, would now seek to impose higher costs on any attacker, warning that each Israeli or US strike on Iranian infrastructure would result in multiple counter-strikes on equivalent sites inside Israel.

“If they target one facility, we will hit several,” the official said, vowing that Iran would continue to “set their strategic interests on fire” until the assault campaign ends.

The confrontation expanded beyond Israel’s borders, with US officials revealing that Iran also attempted an unprecedented long-range strike on the US-UK Diego Garcia base nearly 4,000 kilometers away — a sign of Tehran’s intent to challenge American military positions far outside the region.

Although the missiles did not hit the base, the attempt rattled Washington and underscored Iran’s advancing capabilities amid the war triggered by the US-Israeli offensive on February 28.

Israeli airstrikes meanwhile hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, prompting retaliatory rocket fire from Hezbollah as Lebanon became further entangled in the conflict. Explosions were also reported in Tehran as Iranian air defenses intercepted incoming projectiles, adding to the sense of a region sliding deeper into a multi-front war.

With more than a thousand people already killed in Iran from US-Israeli attacks, and escalating strikes stretching from the Strait of Hormuz to occupied Palestine, Tehran’s latest response signals a determination to dismantle the sense of impunity long claimed by Washington and Tel Aviv.

As Iran’s leadership warned, any continued targeting of its nuclear or energy infrastructure will be met with broader and more punishing counter-blows — a message now delivered unmistakably in the skies above Dimona.