India, June 25 -- In what is probably the first admission of the impact of the US strikes, Iran's foreign ministry on Tuesday said that its nuclear facilities have been "badly damaged" by the American attack.

The Iranian foreign ministry's spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, confirmed to Al Jazeera on Wednesday, "Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that's for sure."

However, he refused to go into any further detail about the damage or the status of the nuclear facilities.

The US military had deployed its B-2 stealth bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on the three nuclear facilities in Iran - Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan.

The Iranian admission comes against the backdrop of several reports of 'obliteration' of the country's nuclea...