attacks its largest refinery with missiles and destroys Amazon’s largest data center in the region

The offensive launched on Saturday by the US and Israel against Iran has unleashed a real regional fire because of the response of Ayatollah regime against the allies of Washington, mostly Arabs.

Images spread on social networks showed a fireball followed by dense smoke in the installation.

Operations at the refinery, one of the largest and oldest in the Persian Gulf, continued while damage after the fire was assessed.

Local authorities indicated that It was a “limited fire” which did not spread to other areas of the complex located on the island of Sitra.

The attack on this refinery is added to those registered in recent days against oil infrastructure in Qatar and Saudi Arabiacountries surrounding the small kingdom of Bahrain.

On March 2, the refinery of the Saudi oil giant Aramco in the port city dand Ras Tanura, one of the largest in the Arab country and very close to Bahrain, was hit by the remains of two Iranian drones intercepted by anti-aircraft defenses, which generated “a small fire” in the facilities and the closure of some “units” as a precautionary measure.

Besides, QatarEnergy, Qatar’s state energy company announced on Tuesday that it was extending the suspension of several of its products after executing a stoppage in the production of liquefied natural gas in the context of the war conflict in the Middle East.

The decision came after Iranian military attacks targeting facilities in the industrial cities of Ras Laffan and Mesaieed.

Besides, They will go toassured this Thursday that American oil tanker caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz.

An Amazon center attacked

He Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a data center of the American company with drones last Sunday Amazon in Bahrain, identified as Washington’s largest information processing enclave in the region.

According to a statement released by the Fars agency, the elite unit of the Iranian Armed Forces stated that The objective of this attack was to “determine the role of these data centers” in intelligence work and logistical support for US military aggression against the Persian nation.

Others two data centers in the United Arab Emirates also suffered damage on Monday after being directly hit by drones.

“These attacks caused structural damage, disrupted power to our infrastructure, and in some cases required firefighting efforts that caused additional water damage,” Amazon said in an update to its online dashboard.

The three attacked facilities remain out of operation, according to the American company.

These attacks have revealed the vulnerability of the sector to conflicts and the rapid growth of data centers in the region.