ReportedMilitary & securityBackgroundIsfahan, Iran
Strikes wreck Mobarakeh steel complex as major Iranian mills halt output
- Mountain Time
- Local time
- 2:20 PM in Tehran
- Where
- Isfahan, Iran
Fars, citing Mobarakeh Steel Company, said massive U.S.-Israeli strikes caused significant destruction to production units at its Isfahan complex and damaged subsidiary Sefid Dasht Steel. By Thursday Mobarakeh said its production lines had completely shut down and Khuzestan Steel said halted units would not restart for at least six months; Netanyahu later claimed 70% of Iran's steelmaking capacity had been destroyed.
Why it matters
Israel says the steel feeds weapons production, while strikes on civilian industrial sites are banned unless used for military purposes; the campaign widened to petrochemical plants days later.
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