Iran and Kuwait report attacks on water and power infrastructure as strikes escalate

Critical water and power infrastructure sites have been damaged as the U.S. and Iran continue to trade strikes, while the parched Middle East reels from temperatures of 100 degrees and beyond.

Critical water and power infrastructure sites have been damaged as the U.S. and Iran continue to trade strikes, while the parched Middle East reels from temperatures of 100 degrees and beyond.

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Inside Iran, some 10,000 people in 20 villages faced a disrupted water supply on Saturday after the U.S. hit a desalination plant in the Bonji village on the Iranian coast, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported, quoting the water company’s chief executive.

“As a result of the attack, the supply of drinking water to several villages in western Jask County has been disrupted,” the Iranian Embassy in India said in a post on X, describing the attack as a war crime.