If Iran’s electricity sector is attacked, it will target Israel’s power plants as well as the power plants of other countries in the region, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned in a statement on Monday reported by Iranian state media.
“We are determined to respond to any threat at the same level as it creates in terms of deterrence ... If you hit electricity, we hit electricity,” Reuters cited the IRGC as saying.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an ultimatum to Tehran, saying that if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping within 48 hours, Iran’s energy infrastructure would be destroyed.
According to The New York Times, the Islamic Republic vowed to keep the Strait “completely closed” if its vital energy sources were stuck.
Power outages were reported by multiple residents in large parts in Tehran on Monday morning after a wave of air raids struck targets across the Iranian capital the previous night, the Times reported.
The Israel Defense Forces stated in the early morning hours of Monday that it had launched a large wave of airstrikes against infrastructure of the “Iranian terrorist regime in Tehran.”
It did not specify which sites were targeted.
