A synagogue in Tehran was “completely destroyed” in US-Israeli strikes overnight, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Located in central Tehran, Rafi-Nia Synagogue served as a religious center for the city’s Jewish community, the semi-official ISNA News Agency reported.
Emergency personnel and other people gather at a synagogue damaged by what Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency said was a US-Israeli projectile, in Tehran, Iran, in this screen record taken from a handout video released on April 7, 2026.
Iranian Red Crescent Society/via Reuters
The attacks were condemned by Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, the representative of the Jewish community in Iran’s parliament, according to IRNA. He said that carrying out the strikes during the Passover holiday showed that Israel had an “anti-religious attitude.”
“At the beginning of the attack on our country, Trump claimed that he was carrying out these strikes in support of the people. But later, most of those who were martyred, injured, or disabled by the United States and Israel were these same people,” Najafabadi said.
-ABC News’ Somayeh Malekian
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