A spokesman for a key command unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned the US and Israel overnight not to carry out further attacks on critical energy facilities, saying Iran's armed forces would retaliate in kind across the region.
"We expect governments of the Islamic countries to warn the criminal United States and barbaric Zionist regime against inhumane actions, like attacks on fuel and energy installations, as soon as possible, or else, similar actions will be taken in the region," Ebrahim Zolfaghari said.
The warning came a day after Israel struck numerous fuel storage facilities across Tehran , which it said were used to support Iranian military infrastructure, and after US forces hit a major desalination plant on Qeshm island in the Mideast Gulf.
Iranian media reported that oil storage depots in Karaj, Shahran, Aghdasieh and Shahr-e Rey — all in or around Tehran — were targeted in the strikes. The depots in Shahran and Shahr-e Rey were also attacked during the 12-day war in June 2025, though on a much smaller scale. State media also said the 220,000 b/d state-owned Tehran refinery was damaged, but the extent of the impact remains unclear.
Thick smoke from the weekend attacks has left parts of the capital shrouded in darkness.
"Since the beginning of this invasion, the criminal United States and helpless Zionist regime have achieved nothing but the killing of innocent and defenceless men and women," Zolfaghari said, adding that they had "gone beyond this to the point that they have targeted parts of the fuel and energy infrastructures".
He claimed the Iranian armed forces had "so far refrained from any similar action" in its retaliation against Israel, US bases and targets in neighbouring Mideast Gulf states out of "serious regard for the interests of the Muslim people stationed in those countries".
But Iran has already targeted key energy installations across the region over the past week with varying degrees of success. Drone strikes have been launched at Saudi Arabia's 550,000 b/d Ras Tanura refinery, Kuwait's 346,000 b/d Mina al-Ahmadi refinery and Bahrain's 405,000 b/d Sitra refinery. The Ras Tanura facility has been offline since early last week.
Saudi Arabia's 1mn b/d Shaybah and 250,000 b/d Berri oil fields have also been targeted by drones in recent days, with the latest attack reported earlier today. All strikes on the two fields have been intercepted, Saudi authorities said.
Numerous oil product storage tanks at terminals in the UAE and Oman have also been targeted throughout the past week
