BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 31. Israeli-US strikes have hit one of Iran’s largest pharmaceutical companies in Tehran, which produces anaesthetics and cancer drugs, the Iranian government said TurkicWorld reports via aljazeera.
Separate attacks were reported on Tuesday at a Shia religious site in the northwestern city of Zanjan, local media said.
“During the US and Zionist regime attacks on civilian centres, on the morning of Tuesday, one of the largest companies producing anti-cancer, anaesthetic and specialised medicines was damaged and the drug production line was damaged,” the Iranian government said in a post on X.
The company was identified as Tofigh Daru Research and Engineering Company, which is owned by the Social Security Investment Company, a state-run holding firm. On LinkedIn, Tofigh Daru says it develops and produces active pharmaceutical ingredients “in the anticancer, narcotics, cardiovascular to immunomodulatory segments”.
Iran’s former foreign minister and founder of the Payab Research Institute, Javad Zarif, said on X that Tofigh Daru was targeted by “desperate aggressors” who “failed to realize their diabolical delusions” and “deliberately” struck a medical production facility.
Elsewhere, Iranian Red Crescent teams said rescue operations retrieved two people buried under the rubble after a US-Israeli air strike hit Zanjan’s Husseiniya Azam, a Shia congregation hall next to a mosque.
One person was killed, and eight were injured in Iran’s western Kermanshah province, according to Iran’s Mehr news agency, after US-Israeli strikes targeted workers at a civilian contracting company in the city of Qasr-e Shirin, on the border with Iraq.
