{"id":36495,"date":"2026-06-08T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36495"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:07:22","slug":"israel-targets-first-energy-site-inside-iran-since-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/israel-targets-first-energy-site-inside-iran-since-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel targets first energy site inside Iran since ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Israel said on Monday it hit a petrochemical plant in Iran&#8217;s southwest, along with strikes elsewhere on military targets, after United States (US) President Donald Trump \u200breportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The escalation complicates US led efforts to broker a broader deal with Iran, driving oil prices up by nearly 5%, with benchmark Brent \u200cfutures back above $97 a barrel.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) blamed the US for the latest exchange of fire with Israel and said further attacks on non-military and energy targets would have consequences for the global economy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The IRGC said that in retaliation they had launched a missile attack on a similar plant in the Israeli city of Haifa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>In the first hit on an energy site inside Iran since the April 8 ceasefire, Israel said it struck targets at the Mahshahr petrochemical complex, while a provincial official told Iran&#8217;s semi-official Fars news agency parts of the \u200bplant were damaged.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29526,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-36495","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Israel hit petrochemical plant in Iran's southwest","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36496,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36495\/revisions\/36496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}