Tehran [Iran] / Tel Aviv [Israel], June 22: A key nuclear site in Iran's Isfahan province has come under Israeli attack, with local officials saying there were no radiation leaks.
Early on Saturday, smoke could be seen rising from an area near a mountain in the city of Isfahan after Israeli air strikes hit the nuclear site overnight, triggering the air defence system. It was the second attack on Isfahan as the conflict between the Middle Eastern nations entered a second week, killing at least 430 people and wounding nearly 3,500 others in Iran, according to Iran's health ministry.
No casualties were reported in the Isfahan attack, authorities said. Israel's army released video and photos, which it says show an attack on the Isfahan nuclear facility.
Iran's Deputy Health Minister Ali Jafarian said the department is preparing to treat any victims suffering from the effects of Israel's continuing attacks on nuclear facilities.
"We have not yet received reports of Israel using unconventional weapons. We are prepared to deal with any nuclear leak in the event that nuclear reactors are targeted, and we hope we do not reach that stage," said Jafarian. The UN nuclear agency confirmed that a centrifuge manufacturing workshop at Iran's Isfahan nuclear site was hit.
A centrifuge manufacturing workshop has been hit in Esfahan, the third such facility that has been targeted in Israel's attacks on Iran's nuclear-related sites over the past week," the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement quoting its chief Rafael Grossi.
"We know this facility well. There was no nuclear material at this site and therefore the attack on it will have no radiological consequences." Israeli forces also hit a military installation in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz in Fars province, according to Iranian media.
On the Israeli side, explosions were heard above Tel Aviv, where buildings were seen on fire. In central Israel, the emergency services released images showing fire on the roof of a multi-storeyed residential building. Local media reports said the blaze was caused by falling debris from an Iranian missile that was intercepted.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that Israel has killed Saeed Izadi, who led the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) overseas arm, in a strike in the Iranian city of Qom.
Source:Qatar Tribune