The war on Iran reached a new height over the weekend, with the United States and Israel attacking infrastructure in the Islamic Republic, provoking a serious response.
The first attack took place early on March 7 and targeted a water desalinization plant on Qeshm Island. Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi held the U.S. responsible, warning that “attacking Iran’s infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences.” He added that the “U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.”
Later on the same day, Israel escalated, attacking oil depots in the Kuhak and Shahran areas of the Iranian capital, Tehran, as well as in the nearby city of Karaj. Some 30 large oil tanks were reportedly hit.
The Israeli military claimed that the strikes targeted only depots serving Iranian forces. The strikes killed four civilians and caused what can be only described as an environmental disaster. The sky over Tehran was blanketed with thick, choking smoke, with reports of oil-saturated raindrops from black clouds raining down on the capital after the strikes.
The response came fast from Iran. Late on March 7, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said that it attacked a refinery in the port city of Haifa in Israel.
The next day, March 8, Kuwait reported Iranian strikes on fuel tanks at the Kuwait International Airport, where a massive fire was reported. Bahrain also announced that strikes launched from the Islamic Republic hit a water desalinization plant.
On March 9, Iran launched an even larger attack against Bahrain. The Al Ma’ameer oil facility took a serious hit. The strikes caused a fire at the complex along with material damage. Bahrain’s state oil company, BAPCO, declared force majeure for its shipments after the attack.
Amid this escalation, the price of oil spiked well over $110 per barrel. Taking into consideration that the Israeli-American war has already forced Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to cut production, the price of oil will not likely return to pre-war levels any time soon.
The U.S. was reportedly angered with the Israeli strikes on Iranian oil depots, which started the escalation. One report by Axios revealed that American officials are concerned that strikes on infrastructure that serves ordinary Iranians could backfire strategically, rallying Iranian society to support the government and driving up oil prices even higher.
Israel could attack infrastructure again, despite the agreement with the U.S., as it is clearly working to escalate and widen the war as much as possible. Iran is guaranteed to respond, and has already warned that its retaliation will not be limited to Israel, but will also include U.S. energy assets in the entire Middle East.
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the us is going to begin another of their cycles. the markets are suffering so there will be a ceasefire, a symbolic but meaningless temporary retreat to stabilize the us economy, reload and come back another day to finish off iran. the next time nato, the arabs and israel will all take part in the demolition of iran. may be after trump and the gop have secured the mid term elections.
not this time. us oil companies profit from high oil prices (whilst china suffers) – so they won’t intervene in hormuz, or at least not seriously.
iran is not going to accept a ceasefire until it is handed some serious guaranties in their very favour. won’t happen any time soon.
maga is over. trump fucked up big time. the mid term elections are lost for the gop and will bring the so-called “democrats” to power!
if iran accepts a ceasefire, this time the new ayatollah should reverse the fatwa, make sure everyone knows it and make sure they have an effective nook deterrent. it shouldn’t take that long with all those hundreds of kiliograms of radioactive stuff they have tucked away and yet untouched.
iran will not negotiate. it is pointless. it is what it is
the destruction of the anglozionazi abomination is indeed a wonderful thing to behold. however, who will want the zionazi filth back in their former euro and united snakes ghettos? meanwhile orange diddler is being attacked from all sides as the epstein regime eats itself. karma!!!
middle east sellout whores are complicit in the attacks on iran. they played their cards, now they deserve bitch slaps.
minimum bahraini and kuwaiti militar stuff should be permanently become unserviceable and hydrocarbons too, nobody will come to their rescue in the current situations now, they are the weakest links in the pg. may be also azeri militar stuff and hydrocarbon too, they are backstabbers and an ever present and future danger too, i doubt anyone would come to their aide right now either.
the sell out may be weakening. arab populations are furious with current zio puppet leadership. we are in a new age and change can come in an instant. uncharted waters for all of humanity
it’s official iranians got ana aled yet again & further sis sified, it seems they are beginning to like it. the next time they will be gen ben ged. hehehe and so will roos kies. hehehe
are you owed wages like a lot of the others ?
fucken dicktard 🖕
it seems the new ayatollah khamenei junior has put abraham lincoln out of action and gerald ford is next and if trampy doesn’t get the message, then charles de gaulle and then george hw bush.
why is char mutta idiotollah ali al shitstani being so quiet. may be is time for him to croak
so zionists know about sistani and try to bring division. name one non-shia country’s standing up to israel. even sunni houthis are silent now, while shiites fight. and this war is about palestine and arabs. without shiites israel wouldn’t have any problem in finishing off sunnis all at once.
i get paid every fortnight. no one owes me a thing.
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us totally suck. israel totally suck. are they really so stupid that they didn’t know what will happend? now we all in whole earth pay the prize. us and israel shoud sink
iran since the start of the war have been hitting infrastructure. iran knows it’s not stronger then the us and israel combined so it’s been attacking infrastructure hoping it will cause the us and israel to reconsider attacks on iran
paedo-in-chief chumpo is now begging putin to end the iran war and pull his chestnuts out of the fire. a bit rich, considering chumpo set up putin for an assassination attempt by his ukronazi proxies.
trump knows he has been screwed by nuttyyahoo and the neocons. his most excellent persian adventure has turned into a real s*itshow. israhell is being hit hard, us bases are rubble, the gulf regimes are being torn apart. he will soon run out of ammo. hormuz is blockaded, the whole of middle east oil is unavailable, with obvious consequences for the world economy. this war was supposed to be a one day wonder, but it could drag on for years.
censorship censorship censorship censorship
good job peace president you make americans sick lier mouth
infrastructure destruction to stave the regions peoples is the globalist depopulation plan. gaza is a fine example
as long as us/israel don’t make it out of this, i’m good.
the zionist joo’s will ignore the us, as their puppet in the whitehouse is to afraid of them.