India, June 22 -- Following theUnited States' strikes on Iran, Mehdi Mohammadi, a senior adviser to Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's Parliament, has said on social media that Iran had been anticipating attacks on Fordo for several nights."The site had been evacuated a long time ago and the damages are not irreversible," he wrote, adding, "you cannot bomb knowledge."

PresidentDonald Trump has announced that the United States has launched strikes against threeIranian nuclear sites. The decision to involve the US directly came after more than a week of strikes by Israel on Iran.

Iranian state media has confirmed that the Islamic Republic's Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo nuclear sites have been attacked by "enemy strikes." The IRIB state...