Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File.
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Iran will target American companies in the region if its energy facilities are attacked in the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic republic, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Saturday (March 14, 2026).
The U.S. military struck Kharg Island on Friday (March 13, 2026), from which nearly all of Iran’s oil is exported, with President Donald Trump saying every military target had been “obliterated” but its energy facilities had been spared.
“Our Armed Forces have already answered that they would retaliate if our oil and energy infrastructure are attacked,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told MS NOW.
Iran “will attack any energy infrastructure in the region which belongs to an American company or an American company is a shareholder,” he added.
Mr. Araghchi said the U.S. attacks on Kharg had used short-range rockets launched from two bases in the UAE, including one close to Dubai.
“They are using the territory of our neighbors to attack us by these kind of rockets and this is absolutely unacceptable.
“It is very dangerous that they use highly populated areas,” he said. “We would certainly retaliate, but we try to be careful not to attack any populated area.”
Mr. Trump on Friday (March 13, 2026) threatened to bomb oil infrastructure in Kharg if Iran does not allow free passage of crude through the choked Hormuz Strait.
Published – March 15, 2026 01:28 am IST
