Iran’s biggest oil storage complex has erupted into a night‑long inferno after a coordinated wave of Israeli airstrikes, launched as F‑35 and F‑15 jets locked into Iranian airspace around Tehran from the east, west and south, defence sources say.

The operation began with what commanders describe as a “triple‑axis encirclement” of the capital: Israeli fighters skimming low over desert and mountain routes to light up Tehran’s radar grid and drag IRGC air defences in three directions at once. As Iranian batteries fired wildly around the city, a separate strike package peeled off toward the southwest, homing in on the mᴀssive coastal depot that feeds a large share of Iran’s exports.

Moments later, precision‑guided bombs slammed into giant storage tanks and pumping stations. Drone and satellite footage shows one tank after another erupting in towering fireballs, shockwaves rolling across the complex as fuel pipelines and loading gantries ignite. By dawn, a wall of black smoke stretched for kilometres out over the Gulf, and firefighters were battling an inferno they quietly admit could take days to contain.

Tehran insists exports will “continue without interruption,” but refinery workers and local officials report pipelines shut, tank farms crippled and entire loading berths offline. Global markets reacted instantly: crude prices spiked, war‑risk insurance jumped again, and traders warned that even a temporary loss of Iran’s largest depot could rattle supply lines from Asia to Europe.

Israeli officials frame the raid as a direct strike on “the cashbox of Iran’s war machine,” arguing that every barrel lost is one fewer missile or drone built. Iranian hardliners vow that energy and port infrastructure “from Haifa to the Gulf monarchies” is now fair game — raising a stark fear in world capitals that today’s flames may be the opening sH๏τ of a wider, uncontrollable energy war.