As many as five people were martyred while 170 were injured in fresh US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s Special Petrochemical Zone of Mahshahr again on Sunday.
The country’s Shahkar Sports Stadium was also destroyed in the strikes.
Also on Sunday, while reacting to the US and Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear plant, the country’s Foreign Minister (FM) Abbas Araghchi said that in case there was radiation, this would not only destroy human life in Tehran, but also in Gulf states.
Iran’s FM said that so far, both the US and Israel had bombed the plant four times. “The attack on petrochemicals hub also shows the intention of our enemies,” he added.
US-Israeli strikes on Saturday targeted a petrochemicals hub in southwestern Iran, hitting several companies in the area, as Iranian forces said they have so far shot down more than 160 armed enemy drones.
“Explosions occurred in the Special Petrochemical Zone of Mahshahr,” said Fars news agency, citing the deputy governor for Khuzestan province.
Fars said the “US-Israeli attack on Mahshahr” hit three companies in the area, while Tasnim news agency said “the extent of the damage remains unknown”.
Meanwhile, commander of the Joint Headquarters of the National Air Defence has said Iranian soldiers are ready to ambush “enemy fighter jets and drones” with “modern indigenous methods and equipment” built to hunt fifth-generation aircraft and advanced unmanned systems, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
In a statement carried by the IRNA news agency, Brigadier General Alireza Elhami said the Iranian air forces have already destroyed several advanced fighter jets, dozens of cruise missiles and more than 160 drones, including the Hermes and Lucas unmanned aircraft.
He added that the downing of these aircraft was “the result of tactics and the use of new equipment and innovations in defence systems”, which he said has caused confusion for the enemy.
