Smoke rises from the site of a US-Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran on April 7, 2026. UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed alarm on April 7, 2026, at the US president's dire warning that "a whole civilization will die" in Iran if the country does not meet an ultimatum to accept US war demands. On February 28, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader and triggering a war that spread across the Middle East. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) /
Iranian TV said that the US and Israel hit a petrochemicals facility in Iran’s southwest Friday night, but no one was hurt.
A local Iranian official said that five people had died in a previous attack on the site in Mahshahr on Saturday.
“At 11:40 PM (2040 GMT) on Tuesday, adversaries from the United States and Israel attacked Amir Kabir Petrochemical in Mahshahr. Valiollah Hayati, the deputy governor of the southwestern Khuzestan province, told the state-run Mehrs news agency that there had been no deaths or injuries.
According to AFP, the agency had already said that the company’s public relations manager “announced the enemy’s assault on one of the units of this complex in the Mahshahr special zone.”
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