The Israeli strike on Iran's Parchin military complex in late October will make it much harder for Iran to develop a nuclear explosive device if it chooses to do so, two Israeli officials told Axios.

The strike significantly damaged Iran's effort to resume nuclear weapons research, Israeli and U.S. officials said.

A secret Iranian nuclear weapons research facility was destroyed in Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic last month, according to US and Israeli sources.

Iran’s Taleghan 2 facility, linked to the country’s defunct Amad nuclear programme, was reportedly destroyed in the Israeli strike carried out on the Islamic Republic late October. The nuclear programme had recently shown signs of renewed activity.

An Israeli airstrike on October 25 destroyed Iran’s Taleghan 2 facility in the Parchin military complex, dealing a significant blow to the country’s nuclear weapons research.