Iran dwell weblog: ++ Israel flies assaults on Tehran ++ | EUROtoday

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As of: March 23, 2026 • 7:00 a.m

Israel’s army has begun a brand new wave of assaults on Tehran. Rockets had beforehand been fired at Israel. The IEA is contemplating releasing extra oil reserves.

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned of the chance of “uncontrollable escalation” in reference to mutual threats of assaults on vitality infrastructure within the Iran warfare. Macron wrote on X that he had spoken to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Macron known as on all events to the battle to look at a moratorium on assaults on vitality and different civilian infrastructure and urged Iran to permit transport visitors to stream freely by means of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is threatening retaliatory assaults on energy crops in Israel and people who provide electrical energy to US bases within the area. This emerges from a press release revealed on Monday. “If you hit the electricity, we hit the electricity,” it says.

US President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to assault Iranian energy crops if Tehran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz to transport inside 48 hours. At the identical time, the Guards denied that they needed to assault water desalination crops within the area.

Iraq’s pro-Iranian militia Kataeb Hezbollah has prolonged its five-day break from assaults on the US Embassy in Baghdad. The deadline shall be “extended by another five days,” mentioned Kataeb Hezbollah. The group added it might reply appropriately to any violation by the enemy and inform an middleman of its “response mechanism.”

On Thursday, Kataeb Hezbollah mentioned it might cease assaults on the embassy in Baghdad underneath sure situations, together with an finish to assaults on residential areas in Iraq and Beirut’s southern suburbs. The US embassy had beforehand been attacked a number of instances with drones and missiles. However, there have been a number of assaults in Baghdad on Sunday night time and all through the day. According to an Iraqi safety consultant, the assaults on the airport within the Iraqi capital have been directed in opposition to a US diplomatic and logistical middle.

The Israeli military has launched a large-scale assault on the Iranian capital Tehran. The assaults focused “the infrastructure of the Iranian terrorist regime,” the Israeli military mentioned on the Telegram on-line service. Iranian media reported explosions and assaults in Tehran. Israel was beforehand attacked with rockets. Israel and the USA started air strikes on Iran on February twenty eighth. Tehran has since responded with rocket and drone assaults on Israel, a number of Gulf states and US services within the area.

Iran has sharply criticized US President Donald Trump’s threats in one other letter to the United Nations. Iran’s state information company Irna reported that Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Irawani, has written to each the Security Council and UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The letter describes assaults on energy crops as “fundamentally indiscriminate and clearly disproportionate.” Trump had threatened to assault such services if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz inside 48 hours. In a letter, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi additionally known as on the UN Security Council to “force the aggressors to immediately stop all unlawful attacks” and to carry them accountable for damages to Iran’s nuclear services and different services.

Two ballistic missiles have been fired on the Saudi capital Riyadh. One was intercepted and the opposite fell in an uninhabited space, the Saudi Defense Ministry mentioned.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is contemplating releasing additional oil reserves due to the Iran warfare. We are consulting with governments in Asia and Europe, says IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. “If necessary, we will of course do that.” The IEA member states had already determined to launch 400 million barrels of oil on March eleventh.

The son of the final Shah, Reza Pahlavi, calls for that the US President rethink his risk over the Strait of Hormuz and spare civilian infrastructure in Iran. The airport within the Iraqi capital Baghdad was shelled.