Moment gas pipes explode causing fire to rip through Tehran streets after Israeli strikes hit oil depots
The massive gas pipe explosion that occurred after Israel hit oil depots in Iran caused the ground to shake in the streets of Tehran.
Israel launched a new wave of devastating attacks, hitting Iran’s fuel infrastructure for the first time in nine days.
Video footage shows the moment a gas pipe in central Tehran sent shockwave-generating explosions through buildings on busy Shahran Boulevard.
Buildings shook and people ran for their lives as a flash of light appeared on the street.
The explosions left a ‘river of fire’ in the city streets; Burning oil leaked onto sidewalks, roads and the city’s sewer system.
The blast came after Israeli strikes hit the nearby Shahran oil depot in the west of the city, one of four depots targeted in attacks on the Iranian capital.
Iran’s oil distribution company said four of its employees were killed in the attacks.
The sky above Tehran turned red and filled with acrid smoke as fireballs shot from warehouses.
A ‘river of fire’ was seen on the streets of Tehran after Israeli attacks on oil depots caused gas pipelines to explode
Attacks on oil depots in Iran sent huge clouds of smoke into the sky, turning the sky red
A Tehran resident said “night turned to day” as explosive orange flames lit up the sky from the intense inferno that formed overnight.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed it has hit ‘several fuel storage complexes’ in Tehran as part of a ‘significant offensive’ against the regime.
A Tehran resident said “night turned to day” as explosive orange flames lit up the sky from the intense inferno that formed overnight.
This comes as US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of the war against Iran ending at a time when there is no longer a functioning military or any leadership in power.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said: ‘At some point, I don’t think there will be anyone left to say, ‘We surrender.’
The President also warned Sir Keir Starmer that he would remember the lack of support from ‘our once great ally’ for a war he ‘already won’, as he told the British Prime Minister he did not need Britain to send planes to the Middle East for an extraordinary strike.
Trump’s sentiments were echoed by his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Israel would continue its war with Iran “with all our might.” He added that Israel has a ‘systematic plan to eliminate the Iranian regime’.
Netanyahu said that Israel, as well as the United States, had taken almost complete control of the air over Tehran after a week of attacks, and that the IDF had “many surprises” for the next phase of the war.
‘Citizens, you tell me, the government and our heroic soldiers to continue until victory, I thank you. “I assure you that we will continue with all our strength,” Netanyahu said in his televised speech last night.
Addressing the Iranian people, he said Israel’s ‘moment of truth’ had come as it sought to help free them from ‘the yoke of tyranny’.
He said Israel had succeeded in ‘transforming the Middle East’ and changing the balance of power in the region.
‘Together we will roar like a lion. “And together, with God’s help, we will ensure the eternity of Israel,” he added.
The IDF said it targeted Tehran’s oil and fuel depots because Iranian forces ‘directly and frequently use them’. [them] In the statement made by the IDF, it was said “to operate the military infrastructure”.
Despite strategic attacks on Tehran, Iran’s Deputy Defense Minister has unapologetically insisted that its bomb, drone and missile reserves are ‘fully ready and intact’ and that the country will ‘face all kinds of threats’ in the long term.
According to the statement made by the National Iranian Oil Company, warehouses in Tehran and Alborz provinces were among those hit.
State media blamed ‘an attack organized by the US and the Zionist regime’ on one of the facilities supplying the capital and neighboring provinces to the north.
The fire that broke out in the Shahran oil depot following the US and Israeli attacks rendered many fuel tankers and vehicles in the Tehran region unusable.
Earlier in the day, the IDF announced that it had also struck two Iranian facilities that produce ballistic missiles for the regime.
The IDF said the two compounds in Parchin and Shahrud were used in the research, design and production of lethal weapons.
In a message sent to X, the IDF said: ‘Last week hundreds of IAF fighter jets struck the Iranian regime’s manufacturing industries used for missile and weapons development and production.’
The Israeli army had previously announced that it carried out approximately 3,400 attacks on Iran in the first week of the war and approximately 7,500 ammunition was dropped.
The IRGC spokesman said the country would retaliate if attacks on energy infrastructure continued.
“If you can tolerate oil prices of more than $200 per barrel, continue with this game,” the spokesman said.
Iran continued to launch its own attacks, launching drones and missiles against Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai; Here, one person died and two skyscrapers were damaged due to falling shrapnel during the ‘air intervention’.
