Israel attacked two main fuel pipelines in Iran this week: Report

Israel was behind assaults on two main fuel pipelines in Iran on February 14, a report with the New York Instances has advised. Citing Western officers and a navy strategist affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, the report additionally stated the assaults disrupted the stream of warmth and cooking fuel to provinces with tens of millions of individuals.

Briefing the Iranian media on the assault, the nation’s Oil Minister, Javad Owji, stated, “The enemy’s plan was to utterly disrupt the stream of fuel in winter to a number of fundamental cities and provinces in our nation.”

The minister, nevertheless, didn’t publicly blame Israel, regardless that he, on earlier events, had referred to the blasts as “sabotage and terrorist assaults”.

Whereas such assaults are uncommon in Iran, Arab separatist terrorists in Iran claimed in 2017 that that they had blown up two oil pipelines in coordinated assaults within the nation’s western Khuzestan province.

In December, Iran executed 5 individuals whom it accused of being saboteurs with hyperlinks to Israel’s Mossad intelligence service in a decades-long shadow struggle that has seen Tehran accuse Israel of assaults on its nuclear and missile efforts, expenses the latter has by no means confirmed or denied.

Israel has lengthy focused navy and nuclear websites inside Iran, and assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists and commanders, each inside and outdoors of the nation.

Israel has additionally waged cyberattacks to disable servers belonging to the oil ministry, inflicting turmoil at fuel stations nationwide.

Iran has stated that it doesn’t need a direct struggle with the US, and it has denied being concerned in both the October 7 terrorist assaults towards Israel or the varied assaults towards American and Israeli targets within the area since then.

Nonetheless, the nation has been supporting arms a community of proxy militia which have been actively preventing with Israel and the US, together with the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Iran has additionally armed and educated Hamas and different Palestinian fighters.