00:21Sirens, fire, black smoke rising over the Mediterranean coast.
00:26Today, Iran did something it has never done before.
00:31It sent ballistic missiles directly into Israel's largest oil refinery.
00:36Not a military base, not a desert outpost, a civilian petrochemical complex packed with
00:43fuel, chemicals and workers right on the shore of Haifa Bay.
00:48To understand what happened today, you need to rewind to this morning.
00:52Israeli jets tore across the sky over southwestern Iran and hammered the Mashar petrochemical
00:59complex, one of the biggest chemical hubs on the planet.
01:03Israel says those facilities were making materials used in ballistic missiles.
01:08They've hit this same site before, back in April, and when they did, they knocked out
01:13so much infrastructure that dozens of plants went dark for weeks.
01:18billions in economic damage, gone just like that.
01:22But this time, Iran was ready to hit back.
01:25And they didn't go after a military target.
01:28They went after Haifa.
01:30The IRGC, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, launched ballistic missiles at the Bazan Group refinery
01:37complex in Haifa Bay.
01:39This is Israel's crown jewel of energy infrastructure.
01:43It's where the country refines most of its fuel.
01:46It sits right on the coast, visible from the city.
01:49The IRGC didn't hide what this was.
01:53They came out and said it explicitly.
01:55This is retaliation for Mashar, word for word.
01:58They even issued a warning that Israel had started, quote, a dangerous game by targeting
02:05energy infrastructure, and that if it continued, the consequences would ripple through global
02:10oil markets.
02:11That last part is not a small threat.
02:14That's Iran telling the world, we can make your gas prices go up.
02:19Both sides are now deliberately targeting energy and industrial infrastructure.
02:25Not just soldiers, not just missile silos, refineries, chemical plants, the economic backbone
02:31of a country.
02:32This is a new kind of warfare.
02:34Call it economic warfare with explosives.
02:37And it's terrifying.
02:39Because these facilities don't just burn, they leak, they explode and chain reactions.
02:44They send toxic smoke over cities full of civilians.
02:48After Israel's April strikes on Mashar, there were fires, injuries, and a chemical smoke
02:54plume that had locals scared to breathe outside.
02:58Imagine that in a dense port city like Haifa.
03:02This is all happening against the backdrop of a ceasefire that was supposed to be holding,
03:07a fragile pause that was already cracking at the edges.
03:11Today might be the moment it fully breaks.
03:14We don't have the full damage reports yet.
03:16We don't know if there are casualties.
03:18We don't know what Israel's next move is.
03:22But what we do know is this.
03:24Today, the Iran-Israel conflict entered a phase neither side has been willing to go to
03:30before.
03:30And the world is watching to see who blinks first.
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