US-Israeli sites continue to pound civilian targets in Iran, hitting an orphanage, a cancer drug facility, a religious site, and more residential buildings in recent days.
CNN reported, citing Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency, that a US or Israeli strike on Monday hit a newly built orphan charity complex in the city of Fardis, about 25 miles west of Tehran, killing at least two people and wounding five others.
The attack on the orphanage was also recorded by the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA), a US-based and US-funded NGO that’s very critical of the Iranian government.
According to Al Jazeera, the Iranian government said that a US-Israeli strike on Tuesday hit one of Iran’s largest pharmaceutical companies in Tehran that makes anesthetics and cancer drugs.
“During the US and Zionist regime attacks on civilian centers, on the morning of Tuesday, one of the largest companies producing anti-cancer, anesthetic, and specialized medicines was damaged, and the drug production line was damaged,” the government said.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) reported that one of its workers was killed by a US-Israeli strike that hit the Grand Husseiniyah of Zanjan, a gathering hall for Shia Muslims that’s next to a mosque, and shared photos and videos of rescue efforts at the site of the strike and said that at least two people were pulled out of the rubble.
The IRCS also posted videos of its rescuers working in the rubble of the site of a US-Israeli strike on a residential building in Tehran. “This morning, following airstrikes by the Zionist regime and America on a residential area in western Tehran, Red Crescent and fire department rescuers managed to save two injured fellow countrymen alive from under the rubble,” the IRCS said.
The IRCS said that more than 100,000 “civilian units” have been damaged or destroyed across Iran by the US-Israeli bombing campaign. According to the HRANA’s numbers, at least 1,574 civilians, including 236 children, have been killed in the bombardment since the US and Israel launched the war on February 28.
