The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has described US Israeli attacks on the country’s heavy water facilities as a “crime against science and human health”, vowing to continue its scientific work despite what it called ongoing “aggression”.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that Israeli forces bombed the Arak heavy water reactor, emphasizing that the facility is fully safeguarded by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and was constructed in accordance with the technical specifications outlined in the nuclear deal.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has information that key buildings at Iran’s Khondab heavy water research site were damaged in Israeli strikes, including the distillation unit.

On the seventh day of ongoing hostilities between the two nations, Israeli jets targeted and bombed a nuclear reactor under construction in central Iran as part of a series of airstrikes.

Israel carried out an attack on Iran's Arak heavy water reactor, according to Iranian state television.

Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a “distress signal” of what is to come as climate change makes the planet’s water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations (UN) said Monday, News.Az reports citing foreign media.