Iran warns US against targeting energy facilities

Sidebar Menu Mobile En Now Follow us Live Blog Update| War on Iran 16 October 2026 13:55 BST Tehran has pledged swift retaliation if Washington threatens its energy infrastructure. Iran’s acting oil minister, Hamid Bovard, said the country would respond “immediately and appropriately to any US threat to Iranian energy facilities”. “The war that the United States started by ignoring international norms has affected the energy sector globally,” he said. “We will take precise and appropriate retaliatory measures at the right time to counter enemy threats.”