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Sunday, March 8, 2026
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Sunday, March 8, 2026
Iran’s military warns it will target region’s oil sites if Israel hits energy infrastructure
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Four men walk as a thick plume of smoke from a US-Israeli strike on an oil storage facility late Saturday lingers in the cloudy sky behind them in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s military warns that it will target oil sites in the region if Israel continues to strike energy infrastructure in the Islamic Republic.
“The governments of Islamic countries are expected to warn the criminal America and the savage Zionist regime of such cowardly, inhumane actions as soon as possible,” Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran’s central military command, tells state TV.
“Otherwise, similar measures will be taken in the region, and if you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game,” he says.
Israel struck Iranian oil depots yesterday, in an apparent first.
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