Israel struck a number of facilities at a petrochemical complex in Mahshahr, in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, as part of a temporary resumption in direct hostilities between Tehran and Jerusalem.
Israel's strikes were in response to a barrage of ballistic missiles that Iran launched at targets in northern Israel late on Sunday, 7 June, which in turn, were a reaction to Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, earlier that day.
Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) said it targeted "several infrastructure sites" it said were used by Tehran "to produce and export raw materials for weapons production." The facilities "produced unique materials that serve as critical components for the development of ballistic missiles," it said.
The IDF said it had targeted the same complex during the initial weeks of the conflict that began on 28 February.
Iran confirmed the hit, naming the complex as Karoon Petrochemical, which is owned by Iranian petrochemical company PGPIC. It and several of its subsidiaries were sanctioned by the US in 2019 on the grounds it would help finance the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The IDF separately said it struck several Iranian "strategic defense systems" Tehran had deployed across the country to replace systems destroyed earlier in the fighting. Iran reported strikes on facilities in and around Tehran, Isfahan and Tabriz.
Iran's armed forces said Israel had "started a dangerous game" with its targeting of the Karoon petrochemical hub, and vowed to hit back hard. It subsequently said the IRGC had launched a new missile strike against "similar industries" in Israel's Haifa, home to Israel's largest integrated oil refining and petrochemical facility. The 197,000 b/d Haifa refinery was targeted by Iran during the 12-day war in 2025, and during the early weeks of the current conflict.
Israel has not confirmed if the facility sustained any damage today.
The IRGC has said it has suspended its attacks on Israel, but warned "any continuation of [Israeli] hostilities and wrongdoing ꟷ particularly in southern Lebanon ꟷ will be met with far harsher and more devastating actions than those previously taken."
