US President Donald Trump today announced a 10 day ceasefire on Iran civilian infrastructure. Israel broke it within 4 hours. They are prolonging the war on purpose to force an American invasion.
In fact, Israel has hit 3 of Iran's largest steel factories, a power plant, and civilian nuclear sites among other infrastructure. Israel claims it acted in coordination with the U.S.
Coordinated strikes hit all three of Iran’s largest steel plants simultaneously – Mobarakeh, Esfahan, and Khuzestan – the backbone of the country’s non-oil economy.
Together they produce roughly 70% of Iran’s steel output. Iron and steel is Iran’s second-largest export category at $6.48 billion, its primary hard-currency lifeline outside of oil.
Mobarakeh makes the flat steel used in cars and pipelines. Esfahan produces structural beams and railway rails. Khuzestan supplies the raw slabs that feed factories nationwide.
Steel became Iran’s top non-oil export precisely as a sanction hedge as it is cheap to produce using local ore and natural gas, and a critical source of foreign currency when oil revenues were blocked.
Hitting all three at once targets critical industrial capacity and the economic architecture Iran spent decades building to survive Western pressure.
As a result of Israel's actions today, Iran has issued an evacuation order for the following steel production plants:
- Saudi Hadeed Steel
- Emirates Steel Arkan
- Qatar Steel
- Bahraini Foulath
- Kuwaiti United Steel Industrial Co
- Israeli Yehuda Steel
The Iranian state-run Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has published a graphic highlighting and warning of retaliatory attacks soon:
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