Iran says US-Israel strike knocked desalination plant offline

Iran claimed on Tuesday that an “enemy airstrike” took one of the desalination plants on Qeshm, an island in the Strait of Hormuz and the larger Persian Gulf, completely offline earlier this month.

“Drinking water on Qeshm Island is supplied by desalination plants,” the head of the Environmental and Occupational Health Center of Iran’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday, as quoted by the Borna News Agency. “Unfortunately, one of the desalination plants on Qeshm Island was targeted and is completely out of service, as it is not possible to repair it in the short term.”