France, March 3 -- The palace in Tehran was hit in an attack on Arag Square in the south of the city on Sunday evening, local media reported.

"Following the joint US-Israeli attack on Arag square in southern Tehran on Sunday evening, parts of the Golestan Palace... were damaged," the ISNA news agency reported. It added that windows, doors and mirrors were hit by reverberations from blasts.

Iran's Mehr news agency carried a similar report. Unesco warning

The former royal palace "was reportedly damaged by debris and the shock wave following an air strike to the Arag Square, located in the buffer zone of the site in the Iranian capital", Unesco said in a statement late on Monday.

The UN cultural agency said it had "communicated to all pa...