{"id":43662,"date":"2026-03-08T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43662"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:36:59","slug":"us-israel-hit-five-oil-sites-in-and-near-tehran-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-israel-hit-five-oil-sites-in-and-near-tehran-official\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Israel hit five oil sites in and near Tehran: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The United States and Israel hit five oil facilities with overnight strikes in and near the Iranian capital that killed four people, an official told state TV on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport centre in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft,&#8221; the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, Keramat Veyskarami, told state TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four of our personnel, including two oil tanker drivers, were killed in the incident,&#8221; he added, saying facilities &#8220;were damaged&#8221; but the &#8220;fire was brought under control&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from fires overnight hung over the capital, casting a dark haze across the city as morning broke.<\/p>\n<p>Residents reported the smell of burning lingered in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Veyskarami said Iran&#8217;s oil depots have &#8220;sufficient gasoline reserves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On February 28, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran that killed its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered a war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Iran responded with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel as well as US interests across the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and Israel hit five oil facilities with overnight strikes in and near the Iranian capital that killed four people, an official told state TV on Sunday. &#8220;Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport centre in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft,&#8221; the CEO of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43663,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662\/revisions\/43663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}