Politics IAEA: Heavy water reactor in Iran hit

SDA

19.6.2025 - 12:07

ARCHIVE - The heavy water nuclear facilities near the city of Arak. Photo: Hamid Foroutan/Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA/AP/dpa
ARCHIVE - The heavy water nuclear facilities near the city of Arak. Photo: Hamid Foroutan/Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA/AP/dpa
Keystone

According to information from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the heavy water research reactor Chondab (formerly Arak), which was under construction, was hit in Israeli attacks on Iranian targets.

Keystone-SDA

The facility was not in operation and there was no nuclear material there, the IAEA announced on Platform X. The Israeli military itself had previously announced that it had attacked a heavy water reactor near Arak.