Israel launches strikes on nuclear sites as Iran warns of retaliation
Al Jazeera
Uranium facility, steel plants and heavy water complex among targets hit as IRGC warns of escalation.
Israel has struck a uranium processing facility in the central Iranian city of Yazd, the Israeli military confirmed, in an escalatory move that comes as regional diplomats have been attempting to broker an agreement to halt the joint US-Israeli war on Iran.
The Israeli Air Force said it hit a plant used to extract raw materials essential to the uranium enrichment process, describing it as a “unique facility” in Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization confirmed the strike, but said there were no casualties or radiation leaks.
Friday marked day 28 of the conflict, and the assault on Yazd was part of a broad wave of strikes on sites across the country.
The Khondab Heavy Water Complex in central Iran was also hit.
Two major steel plants, the Khuzestan Steel facility in the country’s southwest and the Mobarakeh Steel complex in Isfahan, were also struck, with Iran’s Mehr news agencies both reporting damage to an electrical substation, an alloy steel production line and a warehouse.
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