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Natanz is not Iran’s only enrichment facility; its most hardened site — at Fordow — has not been affected, nor have a number of other key nuclear sites across the country...Should Iran make a decision to produce a nuclear weapon, it would likely do that at hardened and potentially still secret sites."

They can do considerable damage to Iran’s nuclear programme,” said Matthew Savill, the head of the military sciences department at the Royal United Services Institute in London. “It’s doubtful they can destroy it all on their own, but I think they are prepared to keep hitting it over time.”

I think this is the culmination of many months if not years of preparation so whilst the scale and the targeting of the attack may come as a surprise. I don't necessarily think the attack itself is."