Streets on fire, acid rain: Israeli strikes on fuel sites near Tehran compared to chemical warfare

Cătălin Roșioru

The attempt to topple the Iranian government is pushing the Middle East into an increasingly deadly spiral of destruction Israeli strikes on oil storage facilities near Tehran over the weekend temporarily turned the Iranian capital into a fire-lit “hellscape,” with long-term environmental and health damage expected. Though Israel claimed that the targets were military, Iran said the effects are comparable to chemical warfare on civilians. Even supporters of the US-Israeli regime-change war