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A simultaneous missile attack by Iran and Hezbollah caused a blaze at the main oil refinery in the Israeli port city of Haifa on March 30, with United States President Donald Trump later renewing his threats to the Islamic Republic’s energy infrastructure.
The attack triggered sirens as far south in Israel as the city of Herzliya. At least six impact sites were reported – three in the settlement of Kiryat Ata, two in Haifa, and one in the settlement of Shfaram. Two people were injured, one of them seriously.
The attack caused a fire at an oil refinery in Haifa, which was previously hit and damaged by interception fragments on March 19.
Fire and Rescue Service said that an industrial building and a fuel tanker at Israel’s Oil Refineries in Haifa were hit by debris from an intercepted missile.
Bazan Group, which owns the refinery, informed the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that the roof of a distillate tank sustained “localized damage” in the missile attack from Iran, claiming that the damage is “not substantial,” and that all production facilities are operational.
Haifa refineries are Israel’s largest oil processing facility and a cornerstone of the country’s energy security and industrial economy. They process approximately 197,000 barrels of oil per day, supplying roughly 50–60 percent of domestic fuel in the country.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed that it had targeted Haifa as a part of “the 87th wave of Operation True Promise 4”.
Shortly after the attack, Trump said that progress is being made in “serious discussions” with Iran about ending the war, but warned that the U.S. will destroy the Islamic Republic’s infrastructure if a deal is not achieved “shortly” and if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened.
“The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ‘touched,’” he added
“This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year ‘Reign of Terror,’” Trump concluded.
Asked later on for his response on the latest attack on the refinery in Haifa, Trump told The New York Post: “You’ll see shortly.”
The attack on the refinery, which came just over a month after the start of the American-Israeli war on Iran, was yet another sign that Israel’s air defense network is no longer capable of keeping up with repeated missile fire.
Israel will certainly respond to the attack, possibly in coordination with the U.S. A strike on Iranian energy infrastructure, even on a limited scale, could, however, trigger more serious action from the Islamic Republic. This would jeopardize ongoing diplomatic efforts.
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burn baby burn.
trump having imaginary negotiations again lol
iran will soon be a nuclear wasteland…heheheh