Middle East Situation | Iran Claims Attack on US Oil and Gas Facilities, Strikes US Military Bases

Iran continues to be at war with the United States and Israel, and in the early morning of Thursday local time, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement announcing the launch of the 63rd round of “True Commitment-4” operation, which has launched large-scale missile attacks on oil and energy facilities related to the United States in the region.

The statement emphasized that Iran was originally unwilling to expand the war to the energy sector and did not want to affect the economies of neighboring countries, but the enemy’s provocations led to a new stage of the war.

The statement confirmed that the Iranian armed forces have carried out multiple rounds of strikes to ensure that the losses suffered by the enemy are on the same level as the damage to Iranian infrastructure. The statement also warned that if the attack continues, Iran will expand the scope of the strike to all energy infrastructure of the United States and Israel’s allies until it is completely destroyed.

On Wednesday night, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement saying that missile forces launched missile attacks on the US military base in Salaam and the Kurdish armed base in Zagoye, Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah province.

According to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, a judicial institution in Larestan County, southern Fars province, was attacked by the United States and Israel, killing 14 people and injuring 50 others, including two judges.

On Wednesday night, multiple explosions occurred in the Iranian port city of Nzeli on the Caspian Sea coast, and the Israeli Air Force attacked Iranian naval ships in the area.

The Israel Defense Forces announced that since Israel and the United States jointly launched a large-scale military operation against Iran on February 28, the Israeli army launched an airstrike on targets in northern Iran for the first time.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak said at an event in Moscow that the world is facing the worst energy crisis in 40 years. He said that if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked, it will affect about one-third of the world’s trade in oil and petroleum products. 20% of global natural gas production cannot enter the market.