Israel said on the 6th (local time) that it struck Iran's largest petrochemical complex.
According to Reuters and AFP, Israel defense Minister Katz said in a video statement that day, "We carried out a powerful strike on key facilities in Asaluyeh, which accounts for about 50% of Iran's total petrochemical production."
Asaluyeh is a strategic hub of Iran's energy industry adjacent to the South Pars offshore gas field in southern Iranian waters. Earlier, Israel destroyed four processing facilities at the South Pars offshore gas field in a drone attack. On the 4th, it also carried out an airstrike on the Mahshahr petrochemical special zone in the southwestern Khuzestan Province.
Minister Katz claimed that "both key facilities, which account for about 85% of Iran's petrochemical exports, have been rendered inoperable."
However, the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said in a statement that "some auxiliary facilities of the petrochemical industry in the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (PSEEZ) were attacked by enemy forces," adding, "The current situation is being managed stably."