Iran warns that attacks on energy facilities could trigger irreparable damage
Tehran (ANTARA) - Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned on Sunday (22/3) that energy and oil infrastructure across the Middle East region could face “irreparable” destruction if the United States targets Iran’s power plants.
Ghalibaf’s statement appeared on the social media platform X following US President Donald Trump’s threat to “strike and annihilate” Iran’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened within 48 hours.
Ghalibaf wrote that any attack would make “vital infrastructure as well as energy and oil facilities across the region… legitimate targets” and result in long-term oil price increases.
Earlier on Sunday, Iran’s main military command, the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, issued a similar warning, stating that attacks on Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure would trigger strikes on US and Israeli energy facilities, information technology, and water desalination plants in West Asia.
In a post on 12 March on X, former Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, who was later killed in a US-Israel attack, warned that the destruction of Iran’s electricity capacity could plunge the region “into darkness within half an hour”.
The US-Israel attacks, which began on 28 February, have killed senior Iranian figures, including the then Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as well as several military commanders and civilians. Iran subsequently responded by launching waves of missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and US bases in the Middle East.
On Sunday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated that the 73rd wave of its drone and missile attacks had killed and injured more than 200 people in Israel. Targets included military facilities and security centres in the cities of Arad, Dimona, Eilat, Be’er Sheva, and Kiryat Gat, as well as several US bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
Separately, Iran’s military reported launching an attack on Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport using its domestically produced Arash-2 drones, according to Iran’s official news agency, IRNA.