Some 10,000 inhabitants of twenty villages in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan have been left without drinking water after a US attack on a desalination plant in Jask county, local authorities reported this Saturday.
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The director general of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, Abdolhamid Hamzehpur, stated that the attack registered this morning completely interrupted the supply of drinking water to the twenty villages and described the US bombings against the province’s infrastructure as “a series of crimes and terrorist attacks,” according to the Tasnim agency.
According to the official, during the attack, a pumping station in charge of extracting water from the sea and an electrical transformer at the Bunji desalination plant, which had a production capacity of 3,150 cubic meters of water per day, were completely destroyed.
Civilians continue to suffer.
The Bunji desalination plant in Jask county, in Iran’s Hormozgan province, came under US attack in the early hours of Saturday: @Tasnimnews_Fa
Several pumping units, and a power transformer were “targeted and completely destroyed.”
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The official indicated that the damages affect the water transport facilities from the sea and the pumping stations and assured that the company’s operational teams are working on their replacement and reconstruction.
The attack comes within the framework of the new military escalation between Iran and the United States, which has included successive waves of US bombings against different areas of southern Iranian territory since last Saturday and Iranian retaliatory attacks against US targets in several Middle Eastern countries.
Most of the attacks have concentrated in the province of Hormozgan, where last night several communication routes were hit, including a tunnel and two bridges, causing the death of at least seven people, according to Tasnim.
Iran, which has branded the US bombings against civilian infrastructure as “war crimes,” has responded daily to US attacks with missile and drone launches against US targets in Middle Eastern countries such as Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, and Qatar.
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