Iran's Deadly Attack on Israeli Power Infrastructure in Haifa

Israel's 197,000 b/d Haifa refinery has suffered damage from an Iranian missile attack but remains operational, operator Bazan said on Sunday. "The refining facilities continue to operate, while some downstream facilities at the complex have been shut down," it said.

Bazan said that the attack damaged pipelines and transmission lines between the facilities in the complex in a "localised manner."

The damage to the refinery marks the first direct Iranian attack on Israel's energy infrastructure since the latest round of hostilities began on Friday, 13 June. They also follow Israeli drone attacks on two gas treatment facilities in southern Iran.

Iran's oil ministry said today that Israel had hit an oil storage facility in Tehran's northwestern Shahran district late on Saturday. This caused a blaze that spread to "two or three" tanks storing oil products, the Tehran fire department said. A second depot in the district of Rey, in southern Tehran, was also targeted, resulting in another fire.

The oil ministry said the fires at both locations have been brought under control. Iran's oil minister, Mohsen Paknejad made a visit to the Rey depot on Sunday to survey the damage and the ongoing restoration work. Israel has temporarily taken two key gas fields offline as a precautionary measure due to the conflict.