TEHRAN, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Two steel plants in Iran's Isfahan and Khuzestan provinces came under separate U.S. and Israeli attacks on Friday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The report said that the plants attacked belong to the Khuzestan Steel Company and Mobarakeh Steel Company, with rescuers dispatched immediately after the strikes.
According to Fars, the Mobarakeh plant was hit at an electricity substation and its alloy steel production line, while the Khuzestan facility sustained damage to a number of warehouses.
Isfahan's deputy governor for security and law enforcement affairs, Akbar Salehi, said that at least one person was killed and two others were injured in the attack on the steel complex in the central province, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Salehi added that the plant was operating at the time, with staff present.
In Khuzestan, deputy governor for security affairs Valiollah Hayati confirmed that U.S. and Israeli warplanes carried out the strikes, according to Fars.
Also on Friday, the IRNA reported that 71,356 residential units and 20,399 commercial ones have been damaged across Iran since the beginning of the nearly month-long conflict, which has also resulted in the deaths of 212 children and 240 women.
On Feb. 28, Israel and the United States launched joint attacks on Tehran and several other Iranian cities, killing Iran's then Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with senior military commanders and civilians. Iran responded with waves of missile and drone strikes targeting Israel and U.S. bases and assets in the Middle East. ■
