The most likely strike if done, will be on the centrifuges that enrich the Uranium 235 and on the laboratories, and human infrastructure, power facilities etc. which will be easier to attack. If breached, there will be some sort of a radiation problem in the immediate locality. There will also be storage facilities for uranium hexafluoride which is the gaseous form of uranium used in the centrifuges and yellow cake uranium oxide as the raw material derived from the ore. A heavy bombardment could effectively put the programme to a nuclear weapon, if indeed that is what Iran is doing, and I think it is, back by a number of years. The centrifuges are by far the most expensive and difficult to replace items in any enrichment process. And Iran is on a sanction regime too.
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