WATCH: Footage shows Iran's Isfahan nuclear site 'completely safe' after reports of Israel strike

Iran’s local media said on Friday that nuclear facilities in the central city of Isfahan were “completely secure” after explosions were heard near the area.

Tasnim news agency, closely affiliated to the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), has shared a video of the facility with the caption: “Isfahan’s nuclear site is completely safe”.

Tasnim news agency, closely affiliated to the IRGC, has published this video with the caption: "Isfahan's nuclear site is completely safe". pic.twitter.com/rHAxJmGGuJ

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The video shows a man glancing at his watch in the vicinity of the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre. It then focuses on a group of soldiers gathered near what seems to be an air defence battery.

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Meanwhile, Iran has said that it shot down several drones and that there had been “no missile attack for now” on the country.

Several drones “have been successfully shot down by the country’s air defence, there are no reports of a missile attack for now,” Iran’s space agency spokesman Hossein Dalirian said on X.

As per the World Nuclear Association, the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre houses a uranium conversion facility (UCF), responsible for the production of uranium hexafluoride.

Iran utilises uranium hexafluoride gas in centrifuges to generate enriched uranium, suitable for both reactor fuel and potentially nuclear weaponry.

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Adjacent to the UCF, there exists an enriched uranium oxide powder plant (EUPP) which converts uranium hexafluoride to uranium oxide, along with a fuel fabrication plant dedicated to producing fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor.

Uranium oxide has the potential to be transformed into uranium metal, a material Iran claims it intends to use for reactor fuel production, yet it could also serve as the core for nuclear weaponry.

Furthermore, the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre operates four small nuclear research reactors supplied by China.

Iran insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful and denies it has any ambitions to develop nuclear weapons. But Israel accuses Iran of developing nuclear capability that could be used to make a weapon.

With inputs from agencies