The IDF has issued an urgent warning to residents near to the Arak Heavy Water Reactor in central Iran ahead of an imminent strike on what it called "the military infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime."
In a post on X, the IDF warned "residents, workers, and those present in the Iranian regions of Arak-Khondab in the areas specified on the map" to evacuate. The post included a satellite image of the plant in a red circle like other warnings that proceeded strikes.
The Arak heavy water reactor is 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of Tehran. Heavy water helps cool nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a byproduct that can potentially be used in nuclear weapons. That would provide Iran another path to the bomb beyond enriched uranium, should it choose to pursue the weapon.
#عاجل ‼️انذار عاجل يوجّهه جيش الدفاع إلى السكان والعاملين والمتواجدين في منطقة القريتيْن الايرانيتيْن أراك-خونداب في المناطق المحددة بالخارطة بضرورة الاخلاء فورًا قبل قيام جيش الدفاع باستهداف بنى تحتية عسكرية تابعة للنظام الإيراني.
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