‘Tehran is burning': Israel strikes fuel depots
Israel has struck a series of fuel depots in Tehran, causing fires to break out across the Iranian capital.
Tasnim, Iran's semi-official agency, said Israel also targeted the defence ministry in Tehran, but gave no further details.
It came after Iran on Friday night hit a district in central Tel-Aviv where the Israel Defense Forces headquarters are located.
Footage posted on social media shows the facilities at Shahran and another reservoir south of the city engulfed in flames.
Iran confirmed the depots had been targeted by Israel late on Saturday but insisted the 'situation was under control'.
It came as Iran simultaneously launched a wave of missiles against Israel, killing at least three people in the northern city of Tamra.
Israel Katz, the Israeli defence minister, said 'Tehran is burning' as video emerged of raging fires lighting up much of Iran's capital.
Shortly after the attacks on Tehran one Israeli official told The Wall Street Journal that a targeted strike to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, was 'not off-limits'.
Additional documentation from the fire at Shahran oil depot in western Tehran. pic.twitter.com/wsuKbeyy8N
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) June 14, 2025
Earlier in the day, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, threatened to strike 'every target of the ayatollah regime' in Iran, adding that Israel had already dealt a 'real blow' to Tehran's nuclear programme.
'We will hit every site, every target of the ayatollah regime,' Netanyahu said in a video statement on the second day of Israel's air campaign targeting Iranian military and nuclear sites.
'We have paved a path to Tehran. In the very near future, you will see Israeli planes, the Israeli Air Force, our pilots, over the skies of Tehran.'
The strikes on fuel depots in Tehran were made possible by earlier hits on air defences, leading to claims from Israel that its air force now had 'air supremacy' over much of Iran.
Israel's decision to target the oil depots, which comes after its surprise attack on Tehran's nuclear programme in the early hours of Friday, may be calculated to destabilise the regime by ratcheting up pressure on oil prices.
When Iran's government raised petrol prices by up to 300 per cent in 2019, thousands of motorists joined a 'national anti-regime movement'.
Clashes between law enforcement and protesters left four dead.
An unnamed individual who lives directly across from one of the fuel depots said the force of the explosions felt like an earthquake.
Mostafa Shams, who lives in Tehran, told The New York Times: 'The fire is terrifying, it's massive, there is a lot of commotion here. It's the gasoline depots that are exploding one after another, it's loud and scary.'
As Iranian missiles rained down on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and the surrounding area, the IDF attempted to assassinate a Houthi commander in Yemen.
The result of the attempted strike on Muhammad Al-Ghamari, the Houthi chief of staff, is not yet clear.
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