Smoke billowed above fuel tanks in Tehran and gas plants on Iran’s south coast on Sunday as energy became the latest front line in its conflict with Israel. Iran’s creaking energy sector, starved of ...

Israeli airstrikes targeting Tehran’s energy infrastructure have escalated the conflict with Iran, igniting major fires, disrupting global oil markets, and heightening fears of a wider regional war.

In the early hours of Saturday, a fireball lit up the Iranian skyline as an Israeli drone strike hit Phase 14 of the South Pars gas field, one of the world's most vital energy hubs.