Iran has threatened to resume strikes on oil facilities in the region if any of its oil infrastructure “explodes” due to the U.S.’s blockade on its ports.
President Donald Trump claimed earlier on Sunday that Iran has just three days before its oil lines explode, as Tehran is producing far more than it can store and can’t send the oil anywhere because of the blockade.
The claim provoked an immediate response from Iran, with Tehran framing any incidental “damage” to its oil infrastructure as an “act of war.”
“If, as Trump claims, any part of our infrastructure — including oil wells — is damaged as a result of the blockade, we guarantee that four times the damage will be inflicted on the same infrastructure in countries that support the aggressor,” Esmail Saghab Esfahani, an Iranian vice president of energy, posted on X. “Our math is different: 1 oil well = 4 oil
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