Iran strikes Israel's Haifa refinery in response to attack on oil depots in Tehran

Explosions erupt following strikes at Tehran Oil Refinery on March 7. (Image: AFP)

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that it had targeted a major oil refinery in Israel’s Haifa late on Saturday night, describing the strike as a direct retaliation for what it called joint US–Israeli attacks on Iran’s own energy infrastructure.

The IRGC said that it targeted the Bazan Group oil refinery in Haifa Bay using Kheibar Shekan solid-fuel ballistic missiles.

"IRGC hits Haifa refinery in response to Israeli regime's attack on Tehran refinery," Iran's Mehr news agency reported.

Air raid sirens had sounded earlier on Saturday in the area of Haifa, but there have been no reports in Israel of anything being hit, Reuters said.

Videos circulated on social media, however, claimed to be visuals from the attack on the Israeli oil refinery.

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Moneycontrol could not independently verify the authenticity of the videos being circulated on social media.

The refinery, operated by the Bazan Group in Haifa Bay, is Israel’s largest oil processing facility. Reports say it supplies around 50 to 60 percent of Israel’s domestic fuel. The site was also hit during an Iranian missile barrage in June 2025. That attack killed three workers, injured dozens and forced the refinery to shut down for several months.

The attack by Iran comes as exchange of fire between US-Israel and Iran continues in the war, which erupted on February 28 after joint US-Israeli strikes hit Iran. So far, at least 1,230 people have been killed in the Islamic Republic, while more than 300 in Lebanon have died and around a dozen in Israel, according to officials cited by AP.

Israel strikes oil depots in Tehran

The IRGC's attack, on which Israel has yet to comment, came hours after Tel Aviv carried out air strikes on oil depots in Tehran, with videos circulated on social media showing oil depots engulfed by massive flames and plumes of heavy smoke over the city.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck "several fuel storage complexes" in Iran's capital on Saturday night, which the country's National Iranian Oil Company later confirmed.

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"Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport centre in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft," the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company Keramat Veyskarami told state TV, as per a report by AFP.