Iran War: Oil depot in Tehran on fireplace – Iran continues to strike again | EUROtoday

In the battle with its arch-enemy Iran, Israel bombed an oil depot in Tehran for the primary time round every week after the beginning of the conflict. Footage from the capital circulated on social media displaying an enormous fireball and rising darkish plumes of smoke. Israel’s military mentioned Iran’s armed forces have been utilizing the tanks for his or her army infrastructure. According to Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, the Revolutionary Guards confirmed the bombing of an oil refinery in southern Tehran.

Israel additionally mentioned it carried out an assault on commanders of the Al-Quds Brigades of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Lebanon’s capital Beirut that night time. At the identical time, Israel continued its assaults towards the Hezbollah militia, which is allied with Tehran, within the south of Beirut. Iran, in flip, fired missiles once more at Israel and attacked gasoline tanks on the worldwide airport in Kuwait and targets in Saudi Arabia with drones.

In the morning, the Israeli Air Force mentioned it started one other wave of assaults in Iran.

Meanwhile, the federal authorities briefly introduced the workers of the German embassy in Tehran to security overseas after the intense assaults by the USA and Israel. The Foreign Office in Berlin mentioned that the workers had been briefly relocated because of the risk scenario. However, the accessibility of the embassy is assured.

The Israeli military didn’t present any details about the precise location of the assault on Al-Quds commanders in Beirut. According to Lebanese info, Israel’s army intentionally attacked a room in a luxurious lodge within the heart of Beirut that night time. According to preliminary info from the Ministry of Health, at the least 4 individuals have been killed and eight different individuals have been injured. According to safety sources, one of many fatalities was an Iranian citizen.

In response to the American-Israeli army strikes, Tehran continued its assaults in a single day towards Arab states the place there are US army bases. Air defenses in Kuwait intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles that entered the airspace, the military mentioned on X.

Shortly earlier than, gasoline tanks at Kuwait’s worldwide airport had been focused by drone assaults, in line with the Ministry of Defense. There was initially no additional info. The military mentioned civilian services have been broken by particles from the air protection operation.

The Ministry of Defense of Saudi Arabia additionally reported that night time that six drones had been intercepted and destroyed within the east of the capital Riyadh. Iran’s President Massoud Peseschkian beforehand said that as a situation for stopping air strikes on neighboring nations, there can be no assaults on his nation from there.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the conflict would proceed “with full force.” US President Donald Trump mentioned: “Whatever it takes” concerning the size of the preventing.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had beforehand accused the USA of attacking a desalination plant on the island of Qeshm within the Strait of Hormuz. The water provide to 30 villages was affected, he wrote on Platform X. The info couldn’t initially be independently verified. An assault on Iran’s infrastructure can be a “dangerous step with serious consequences,” wrote Araghchi.

Trump, in flip, accused Tehran of being answerable for the bombing of a ladies’ faculty in Iran on the primary day of the conflict. Asked whether or not the US was accountable, he instructed reporters: “No, in my opinion, based on what I saw, this was done by Iran.” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instructed reporters that the incident was being investigated.

According to Iranian sources, round 170 schoolgirls have been killed within the assault final Saturday.

Meanwhile, Trump took half within the switch of the six US troopers killed within the Iran War. To do that, he traveled to Dover Air Force Base within the US state of Delaware, the place he additionally met the households of the fallen. According to US info, the troopers have been killed in a drone assault in Kuwait within the first days of the conflict.

Amid friends principally wearing black, Trump additionally stood out as a result of he was sporting a white baseball cap with the inscription “USA”.

Meanwhile, US particular envoy Steve Witkoff instructed Russia that Moscow mustn’t help Tehran with info within the conflict. When requested about this, Witkoff instructed reporters: “I said that clearly.” He didn’t give any additional particulars. Several US media shops had reported that Russia was offering Iran with location info and motion knowledge for American troops, ships and plane.

Trump, in the meantime, dominated out involving Kurds within the Iran conflict. Kurdish fighters within the area have been prepared to try this, however he instructed them he did not need that, Trump instructed reporters. The USA has a great relationship with the Kurds, “but we don’t want to make the war more complicated than it already is.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned in a video tackle to the individuals of Iran that the “moment of truth” was approaching. “We want to liberate Iran and live in peace with it,” Netanyahu mentioned. But “liberation from the yoke of tyranny” in the end relies on the Iranian individuals.