Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is preparing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he expected their conversation to “be in the interests of both countries”. Araghchi said late on Sunday night that he would have “serious and important discussions” with Putin in Moscow.

The images are the first look at damage to one of Iran’s main nuclear facilities after American bombers struck that site and two others early Sunday local time.

The United States has joined Israel in its attacks on Iran’s nuclear program. The U.N.'s atomic watchdog and other experts say radiological contamination is likely inside a key uranium enrichment site at Natanz that was badly damaged by Israel and then hit by U.