Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church, Tehran, Iran
The embassy said the blast broke doors and windows at the Russian St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, just across from the compound, as reported by Associated Press.
An adjacent Russian nursing home sustained damage, including a collapsed roof, it added.
“We strongly condemn the ongoing US and Israeli aggression against Iran, which is increasingly affecting civilian infrastructure and religious and cultural heritage,” the embassy said.
Earlier, media reports said airstrikes hit an area near the former US embassy in Tehran, damaging parts of the complex's outer walls.
Footage carried by the Mehr news agency showed the aftermath of the strikes in central Tehran, with shops damaged, windows blown out and debris scattered across the area near the site.
The wall of the former embassy complex, now a museum known as the "Den of Spies", appeared damaged in the footage.
It complex has been controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard since the 1979 hostage crisis.
On Tuesday, Iranian media reported a wave of US-Israeli strikes on civilian facilities, including a cancer drug plant, a religious site and a desalination plant .
Israel has also targeted Iranian universities in recent days, including two in Tehran and another in Isfahan, in what Iranian authorities described as an attempt to undermine the country’s scientific progress.
And in the first day of the war on 28 February, an American airstrike on a girls' primary school in the Iranian city of Minab killed 168 children and their entire teaching staff.
More than four weeks of US and Israeli war on Iran have killed at least 1,600 people, including 244 children and wounded nearly 30,000 people, according to Iranian official figures.
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