Iran's Tasnim news agency denies it previously reported an airstrike on the petrochemical plant at Asaluyeh in southern Iran, calling the claim false. The denial follows widespread circulation of an earlier report, which Tasnim now says it did not publish. The clarification comes amid a wave of unverified claims about strikes on Iranian industrial sites.
Tasnim, Iran's semi-official news agency, has categorically denied ever publishing a report of an airstrike on the petrochemical plant at Asaluyeh, a major energy hub in southern Iran. The denial, issued on its own channels late on June 10, directly contradicts a claim that had been circulating online — including a citation by Israeli journalist Assaf Rosenthal (N12) — which attributed a strike report to Tasnim. The agency now calls that attribution false and states the report was never published by Tasnim.
This development caps a rapidly evolving thread on the night of June 10. At 21:58, The Zioneer first tracked a report from Iran's Mehr News Agency claiming that a US airstrike had struck the Asaluyeh site, along with separate reports of maritime clashes and an Iranian air-defense interception of a cruise missile over the area. Minutes later, at 21:58 also, an Iranian denial of damage to the Asaluyeh refinery was reported, citing authorities. At 22:18, The Zioneer reported that Tasnim had itself been cited as reporting a second strike on the same complex, along with a separate Iranian denial of refinery damage. Now, at 22:21, Tasnim's own denial — claiming it never reported any strike — overrides that earlier citation and deepens the night's pattern of conflicting signals. The progression has moved from a single unverified source (Mehr) to a mix of claims, counter-claims, and denials, with no on-record confirmation from any source of an actual strike.
As The Zioneer previously reported (June 8), the IDF confirmed striking a petrochemical plant in Mahshahr, and foreign reports cited a strike in Kermanshah. Broader context includes a pattern of unverified claims and Iranian denials around industrial sites. The current situation at Asaluyeh — and whether any strike actually occurred there on June 10 — remains entirely unclear.
What remains open: No independent confirmation of any strike on the Asaluyeh petrochemical plant on June 10 exists. Tasnim's denial has removed one of the key sources for such a claim, leaving only the initial, unverified Mehr report and subsequent Iranian military statements as the thread's remaining strike-related accounts. The origin of the false attribution to Tasnim has not been identified.
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Source and signal
- Internal intake