The Iranian Fars Agency reported that offices belonging to the gas company and a gas pressure reduction station were damaged as a result of an attack targeting the city of Isfahan, located in central Iran.
The agency indicated that energy facilities in Isfahan and Khorramshahr were subjected to an American-Israeli attack, explaining that the strikes targeted the gas management building and the pressure reduction station in Isfahan, in addition to the gas pipeline connected to a power station in Khorramshahr.
US President Donald Trump had threatened to strike Iranian energy facilities and “wipe them out” if Tehran did not completely reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a 48-hour period. He said in a post on the “Truth Social” platform at dawn on Sunday that he gives Iran “exactly” 48 hours to open the vital waterway, otherwise it will face a new round of attacks, stressing that the United States will destroy “various power plants, starting with the largest.”
However, Trump later announced, on Monday, that he had held “very good and productive” talks with Iran over the past two days, as he put it, noting that he had ordered military strikes against Iranian power plants and infrastructure to be postponed for five days.
On the other hand, the semi-official Iranian Tasnim news agency quoted an unnamed Iranian official who denied the validity of what Trump announced, considering that these statements fall within a “psychological operation” aimed at improving the situation in the crisis energy markets.
