The attacks, seen in videos circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times, appeared to be the first on Iran’s energy infrastructure since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran last weekend. Until this weekend, the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign had been largely focused on ravaging Iran’s leadership and security services, and police stations, while also trying to eliminate its ability to produce and launch missiles and prevent Tehran from being able to produce nuclear weapons.
But Tehran is a sprawling metropolis of 10 million people, with densely packed neighborhoods, and as in many cities, residential, commercial and military structures are in proximity to one another. Iranian media and residents have reported widespread destruction to residential homes, shops, roads, water pipes and several hospitals and schools, located near targets sites.
Iran’s Ministry of Oil said in a statement that multiple oil storage depots in the provinces of Tehran and Alborz had been targeted.
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Tehran’s main oil refinery is next to one of the storage facilities, in the city’s southern Shahr Rey district, that was attacked, according to state media. Videos circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times showed huge columns of fire lighting up the sky, and rising from what appeared to be the area of the oil depot.
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The Shahran oil depot in northwestern Tehran, which Israel targeted last June, was hit again, sending a dark plume of smoke swirling into the sky.
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The Iranian oil ministry statement said fire and emergency crews were working to put out the flames from the strikes, and asserted there would be no fuel or energy shortages because the ministry had taken precautions, anticipating strikes on its facilities.
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