CNN
–
According to Iran’s judicial news outlet Mizan, the attack on Iran’s Iranian capital, Tehran, killed 71 people on Monday in an attack on Tehran’s capital.
“Martists include prison management staff, draft soldiers, prisoners, families of prisoners who were in prison for visits and legal follow-up, and neighbors who live near the prison,” Judicial spokesman Asghar Jahangir said in a statement released Sunday.
Fars, a news agency affiliated with the state, reported that “many damage” had been recorded in the surrounding area.
Israeli troops attacked the entrance to Iran’s infamous Evin prison on Monday, according to news from Israel’s defense minister and Iran’s state.
Security forces at the Evin Detention Center are known for their long record of human rights abuses, according to administration critics. Political activists, journalists and musicians are among those imprisoned in the facility.
It is unclear why Israel targeted the facility. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed in a statement that Evin was targeted along with several other sites, including the flagship construction of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij headquarters (the paramilitary wing of the Irgency wing), along with several other sites without providing details.
The French foreign minister has condemned the strike against a prison that housed two French citizens.
“The strike for Tehran’s Evin prison has put two of our citizens, Cecil Kohler and Jacques Paris, in danger for the past three years. That’s unacceptable,” Jean Noel Barott said in a post in X after the attack.
The couple was stopped by authorities while on vacation in Iran in May 2022 and arrested on suspicion of espionage. That October, Iranian provincial television broadcast forced confessions from the pair, during which Kohler said he was an agent working for DGES, the French intelligence agency.
The ceasefire between Iran and Israel was announced late Monday after a 12-day strike that began when Israel attacked Iran earlier this month.
