IDF issues urgent evacuation warning to Qom Shahkuhiyeh industrial zone ahead of airstrikes

The IDF's Persian-language spokesman Lt. Col. (res.) Kamal Penhasi issued an urgent warning on Friday to all individuals in the Shahkuhiyeh industrial zone in the Qom region, south of Tehran. 'Urgent warning to all individuals present in the Shahkuhiyeh industrial area. In the coming hours, the IDF will operate in the area, as it has in recent days across Iran, to strike military infrastructure of the Iranian regime,' the statement read, accompanied by a map highlighting the warning zone in red. The IDF has previously struck targets near Qom including air defence sites and missile production facilities. The Qom region hosts significant Iranian military-industrial infrastructure.