TEHRAN, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday strongly condemned the U.S. attack on a water desalination plant on Iran's southern Qeshm Island.
He made the remarks in a post on social media platform X after the United States reportedly destroyed the facility with missiles launched from its Jufair base in Bahrain on Friday.
"The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted," Araghchi said.
He added that attacking Iran's infrastructure is a "dangerous move with grave consequences."
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's parliament speaker, said on his X account that the attack on the Qeshm desalination plant was carried out with support from one of the air bases in the southern neighboring countries.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said on Saturday that it retaliated for the U.S. attack by striking the U.S. base in Bahrain with solid- and liquid-fuel precision-guided missiles.
On Feb. 28, Israel and the United States launched joint attacks on Tehran and several other Iranian cities. Iran responded through several waves of missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and U.S. bases in the Middle East. ■
