“The plant in Ardakan, located in Yazd Province, was targeted minutes ago in an attack by the American-Zionist enemy,” it has said on its Telegram channel, adding that the attack “did not result in the release of any radioactive material”.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has called on US and Israeli industrial companies and industries to immediately leave their workplaces after a heavy-water plant and a yellowcake production plant were targeted, Al Jazeera reports citing Iranian news agency Tasnim.
The IRGC has warned that its fighters are carrying out retaliatory attacks on industrial companies in the region with American shareholders, as well as heavy industries allied with Israel in the region.
It added that employees of those industries should leave and residents within a one-kilometre radius should evacuate until the attack is over.
At least 120 museums and historical monuments have been damaged in recent attacks on Tehran, according to the Cultural Heritage Committee of the Tehran City Council, Al Jazeera reports citing Iran’s ISNA news agency.
“Among these works are notable buildings such as Golestan Palace, the former Gendarmerie building, Baharestan police station building, Shokofeh Cinema, Marble Palace, and the Saadabad Palace complex,” the agency has said.
“The destruction and damage to these buildings is a clear crime against Iran’s historical memory and civilisational heritage and a clear violation of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Time of Armed Conflict,” it adds.
There is no disagreement with the US over Iran, Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has told reporters at a G7 meeting in France, adding that Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons or pose a regional threat, Al Jazeera reports.
“We are already feeling the economic repercussions everywhere, especially in Europe, quite significantly,” Wadephul said.
“That’s why we discussed these issues very thoroughly, and there is absolutely no disagreement. There was and is no request from the United States, especially to us, to make a military contribution before the end of hostilities.”
A shipment of approximately 150 tonnes of food and essential items sent from Russia’s Dagestan republic has arrived in Iran, according to its governor, Sergey Melikov, Al Jazeera reports.
“The shipment will be handed over to the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which will deliver it to the poor and needy,” Melikov says.
The effort has been coordinated by the Dagestan Ministry of Transport, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s office in Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, and the Pure Heart charity foundation.
More than 300 tonnes of medicine were also delivered earlier to the Astara border crossing in Azerbaijan and then handed over to Iranian officials, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry has told broadcaster RTVI.