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Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Iran TV: Israel hits Arak heavy water reactor after evacuation warning, ‘no radiation danger’
Iran's Arak heavy water reactor (photo credit: Hamid Foroutan/ISNA/AFP)
Israel attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, Iranian state television says.
The report says there was “no radiation danger whatsoever” and that the facility had already been evacuated before the attack.
Israel warned earlier in the morning it would attack the facility and urged the public to flee the area.
The research reactor was partially built, with Tehran informing the UN nuclear watchdog that it planed to begin operating the facility next year.
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