Iran condemns US attack on Iranian desalination plant

Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has strongly condemned the US attack on a water desalination plant on Iran's southern Qeshm Island.

He made the remarks in a post on social media platform X on Saturday after the United States reportedly destroyed the facility with missiles launched from its Jufair base in Bahrain on Friday.

"The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted," Araghchi said.

He added that attacking Iran's infrastructure is a "dangerous move with grave consequences."

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's parliament speaker, said on his X account that the attack on the Qeshm desalination plant was carried out with support from one of the air bases in the southern neighbouring countries, reports Xinhua.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said on Saturday that it retaliated for the US attack by striking the US base in Bahrain with solid- and liquid-fuel precision-guided missiles.