Satellite Photos Show Iran Oil Island on Fire in Persian Gulf

Cătălin Roșioru

Iran has lost the first oil storage tank in its weekslong war with the United States and Israel, according to new satellite imagery released this week. A photograph, captured on April 15 by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites, showed smoke rising from the site of a crude oil storage facility on Sirri Island, an Iranian oil terminal in the Persian Gulf. The damage—first reported on Thursday by the shipping-monitoring group TankerTrackers.com—appeared to cost Iran at least one large

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