TEHRAN/JERUSALEM, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A heavy water research reactor facility in central Iran's Khondab was attacked by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Friday, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.
No casualties or danger to residents in the area have been reported so far, Fars added, citing local authorities.
The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran later confirmed the attack.
Meanwhile, a yellowcake production plant in central Iran's Yazd province was also hit by U.S.-Israeli strikes, with no radioactive leaks reported so far, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
The plant, inaugurated in May 2023, produces yellowcake, a uranium concentrate powder obtained from leach solutions and serving as an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the two attacks in two statements.
Separately, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported Friday that two people were killed and two others injured in U.S.-Israeli strikes on a cement plant in the southwestern Fars province.
Earlier in the day, Fars news agency reported that two steel plants in Iran's Isfahan and Khuzestan provinces came under separate U.S. and Israeli strikes on Friday. The attack on Isfahan's plant killed at least one person and injured two others, the IRNA reported.
The fresh attacks came amid a nearly month-long U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict starting from Feb. 28, with heavy fighting continuing between the relevant parties and no breakthrough on a ceasefire.
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 conflict, which has also resulted in the deaths of 212 children and 240 women. ■
