Iran oil facilities hit for first time as war with US-Israel enters day 9

This Is How an Energy Crisis Starts

Iran threatened last week to set ablaze tankers that tried to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy choke point. On Sunday, it started to follow through on the threat, with an oil tanker struck by a drone burning in the water. Meanwhile, Israel has begun attacks on Iran’s oil storage facilities, leaving Tehran covered in a toxic haze and raising the prospect of Iran retaliating against the Gulf States’ infrastructure.Th…

CNN at Tehran’s Shahran oil depot after strike

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen reports from Tehran’s Shahran oil depot, where thick black smoke rises behind him after a strike hit the facility. Iranian state media said fuel and oil storage tanks in several areas of the capital were targeted in Israeli and US strikes. CNN operates in Iran only with government permission.

‘Your Tax Dollars Being Used to Raise Your Gas Prices’: US-Israel Bomb Major Iranian Oil Depots

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Jon Queally for Common Dreams In what was described as a “major escalation” of an attack already denounced as an illegal war of choice, the US-Israeli military coalition bombed major oil depots and other fossil fuel infrastruct…

'Night turned into day': Iranians tell of strikes on oil depots

Fuel depots were hit in Tehran and Karaj overnight, with videos showing huge fires and plumes of smoke in multiple locations.

US, Israel bomb major Iran oil depots as US gasoline prices rise

In what was described as a “major escalation” of an attack already denounced as an illegal war of choice, the US-Israeli military coalition bombed