A senior US official said the United States struck military installations near refineries in central Iran overnight, and warned that any further attacks on American assets in the Middle East will trigger a US strike on Iranian refineries. The statement was attributed to the official as a warning from President Trump, and has not been independently confirmed.
The threat is the latest in a series of escalating statements from US officials amid the ongoing US military campaign against Iranian targets. The Zioneer has reported on multiple rounds of US strikes on Iranian military infrastructure, as well as President Trump's warnings that further strikes would be 'more significant.' The explicit mention of refineries as a target, if US assets are attacked, marks a new threshold in the scope of threatened US action. The claim of an overnight strike near refineries has not been independently verified.
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