Loading ...A ‘War Of The Oil Refineries’ Opens As Israel Bombs Key Tehran Sites, After Which Haifa Refinery Targeted
Iran still vowing to never surrender…
Is a tit-for-tat oil depot war opening? This could be the next phase of escalation, already in progress.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has struck Israel’s Haifa refinery, framing the attack as direct retaliation for fresh Israeli strikes on energy infrastructure inside Iran. Iranian media alleged that US and Israeli warplanes started the tit-for-tat by hitting an oil depot in southern Tehran. The semi-official Fars News Agency reported the storage site was among the latest targets in the ongoing major bombing campaign across the country.
So de-escalation does not in fact seem to be happening, also as there are reports of a third US supercarrier en route to the region, possibly to relieve the long-deployed USS Gerald R. Ford carrier. Here is the Iranian Foreign Minister’s statement.