The assaults spark giant fires as they hit 4 oil storage services and an oil manufacturing switch centre in Tehran and Alborz.
Printed On 8 Mar 2026
Thick smoke has crammed the sky over Tehran after Israeli air strikes hit Iran’s oil services for the primary time for the reason that conflict began, killing at the very least 4 folks.
Joint assaults on Iran by Israel and the USA continued for a ninth day on Sunday, killing greater than 1,300 folks in Iran and about 300 in Lebanon. A couple of dozen folks have been killed in Israel, in keeping with officers.
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The strikes on Saturday sparked giant fires as they hit 4 oil storage services and an oil manufacturing switch centre in Tehran and the province of Alborz, the Fars information company reported, with the Iranian state media describing it as an “assault from the US and the Zionist regime”.
The Aghdasieh oil warehouse in northeast Tehran, the Tehran refinery within the south, the Shahran oil depot within the west of Tehran, and an oil depot in Karaj metropolis had been the services focused. Witnesses mentioned oil from the Shahran depot had leaked into the streets.
At the very least 4 tanker drivers had been killed within the assaults in Tehran and Alborz, Fars reported. Regardless of the assault, “there isn’t any scarcity of gas distribution”, and safety forces are “presently engaged in firefighting operations”, it added.
Israel mentioned it struck “numerous gas storage services in Tehran” that had been used “to function navy infrastructure”.
Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran, mentioned the attacks on a civil industrial facility had been unprecedented.
“This isn’t the primary time. Again in June, in the course of the 12-day conflict, we noticed gas depots being focused, however that is unprecedented,” Asadi mentioned. “We’re coping with a important scenario by way of conflict and environmental circumstances within the capital.”
He described seeing black raindrops on his home windows early on Sunday morning. “There’s a excessive danger of being surrounded by poisonous air.”
Asadi mentioned there are “severe issues” concerning the rising variety of casualties amongst civilians.
“Three days in the past, the tally was at about 1,300, however we all know that previously days, intensive strikes concentrating on Iranian territory have continued, so it’s possible that the quantity has gone up,” he mentioned.
‘Harmful’ precedent?
Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, additionally reporting from Tehran, mentioned the assaults on oil services are a part of a “psychological conflict” in opposition to Iranians, “to frighten them and make them consider that it’s actually going to be the top for them”.
They’re additionally geared toward limiting the mobility of Iranian troops, he added.
“The Israelis are in all probability planning to trigger a scenario of disaster by way of gas in Iran, and Iranians will take into account this as an act of aggression and terrorism,” Vall mentioned.
Nonetheless, Iran is a big nation with many such services, so it’s uncertain the strike will trigger a full disaster, he added.
