ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Israeli military launched attacks on several major power stations and transmission towers in Tehran and Karaj in Alborz province on Sunday, while a petrochemical complex near Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, was also targeted, with Iran’s energy ministry saying the attacks caused temporary power outages that were resolved.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in retaliation, responded to the Israeli strikes by attacking energy and industrial facilities within Israel.
Targeting Iran's energy and industrial facilities
Iranian electrical and industrial facilities in Tehran and Alborz provinces were targeted on Sunday night, with strikes around 9 pm hitting multiple sites across eastern, northeastern, and western Tehran, triggering power outages in parts of the capital’s northern and eastern neighborhoods.
In Karaj, several locations were also struck, cutting electricity in areas including Azimiyeh, Molasadra, Mehrvila, Taleghani, Dehghan Villa, and Gohardasht.
Iran's Ministry of Energy announced that "industrial electrical facilities in Tehran province were attacked, causing power outages in some areas." Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, Deputy Minister of Energy and director of the Iran Grid Management Company, told official state media that "the power outage issue was quickly resolved."
According to released information, a power tower near Karaj and an electrical distribution station in the Doshan Tappeh area of northern Tehran were struck. A spokesperson for Iran's electricity industry stated that a power station in eastern Tehran was also hit.
An airstrike near Tabriz targeted the city’s petrochemical complex on Sunday night, with the East Azerbaijan province’s crisis management director general confirming that one of the plant’s units was hit, while denying any leakage of hazardous or toxic materials following the attack.
In addition to power and industrial infrastructure, at least five locations across Tehran - including Districts 1, 4, 13, 15, and 21 - were struck late Sunday, though the specific sites and details of the targets have not yet been disclosed.
The attacks on Tehran continued into Sunday morning, with strikes reported from around 7:30 am through the afternoon, hitting multiple locations across the west, east, and northeast of the capital.
Iranian media reported that the Sunday morning airstrikes targeted the building of Qatar's al-Araby TV, a store in the Afsariyeh neighborhood, and several buildings in the neighborhoods of Shahrak-e Rah-Ahan, Tehransar, Zafar, Saadat Abad, and Shian.
Additionally, a commercial unit on Bani Hashem Street, a communications center in District one, a target in the Tochal heights, Yas and Kowsar parks, a residential building and a fruit and vegetable market in District 15, a branch of Bank Melli, and a cardboard factory in southern Tehran were hit.
According to municipal divisions, the city of Tehran is divided into 22 districts. Districts one through five cover the north and parts of the west; Districts 10, 11, and 12 comprise the city center; Districts 15 through 20 are in the south and east; and Districts 21 and 22 are in the west of Tehran.
Beyond Tehran, several locations in Shiraz, Rasht, Bushehr, Yazd, Isfahan, Karaj, Shahin Shahr, Tabriz, Qom, and Shaft were struck throughout Sunday and into early Monday morning.
Several locations were bombed in the village of Ousmavandan, part of the city of Shaft in Gilan province, northern Iran, on Sunday morning. The deputy governor of Gilan province stated that five houses were targeted, resulting in the deaths of six people, though the identities of the deceased were not disclosed.
The Isfahan University of Technology announced on Sunday that one of its laboratories was targeted, causing damage to a group of buildings and injuring four university employees.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has not yet released any statement regarding the attacks on Sunday and Monday morning. The Israeli military announced at midnight on Sunday that it had carried out a series of strikes on Iran, stating its air force hit "targets belonging to the Iranian regime" more than 140 times.
On the other hand, Seyyed Majid Mousavi, the commander in the IRGC Aerospace Force, wrote on X that in response to the attacks on Iran's energy and industrial facilities, they targeted the Ne'ot Hovav industrial complex in Beersheba, a steel complex, and two aluminum production complexes in southern Israel.
Iran on Saturday attacked the Alba aluminum production plant in Bahrain, which is considered one of the largest single-site aluminum smelters in the world.
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