Tehran vows retaliation
The IDF attack on the heavy water reactor comes after the military called for residents of nearby Arak to evacuate ahead of imminent strikes on regime military infrastructure.
Israel attacked Iran's Khandab heavy water reactor in Arak, as well as the uranium enrichment facility at Ardakan, on Friday, the IDF confirmed.
Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran to bolster its war effort against the US and Israel, according to a report.
Senior Iranian and Russian officials began secretly discussing the delivery of drones days after Israel and the US launched their first attack on Tehran last month, two officials briefed on the intelligence told the Financial Times.
Moscow began its deliveries in early March, and they were expected to be completed by the end of the month, Western intelligence said.
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In a report by the Tasnim news agency on Thursday, a "well-informed military source" said that more than a million people had organized to participate in the fighting, in addition to a "huge influx" over the past few days of requests by young Iranians to join the Revolutionary Guards.
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"Separately, the military said on Friday that the IDF had earlier hit an Iranian chemical weapons research facility.
The IDF did not clarify if this meant that Iran possessed chemical weapons or whether the Islamic Republic was still at the research stage.
Iran's IRGC vows retaliation
Following the attacks, which Iran asserted were on "industrial centers," the IRGC vowed retaliation on industrial companies in the Middle East that had American shareholders or were aligned with Israel."