Blackened rain falls on Tehran, reports CNN's Fred Pleitgen

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Blackened rain falls on Tehran, reports CNN's Fred Pleitgen​

By CNN staff

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Tehran’s nearly 10 million people have woken to a morning overcast by thick black clouds after Israeli strikes hit Iran’s oil storage sites, CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reports from the capital.

“You can see that the rain, the rainwater is actually black – also saturated, it appears, with oil,” Pleitgen reported.

“So that’s what’s coming down this morning, this sort of oil-filled rain that we have right now on the Iranian capital, after the strikes took place.”

The Israeli military said it struck fuel sites in Tehran on Saturday evening that distribute fuel “to various consumers, including military entities in Iran.”

Video from Reuters also showed flames and smoke rising from the Shahran oil refinery in Tehran.

“This is a significant strike that constitutes an additional step in deepening the damage to the military infrastructure of the Iranian terrorist regime,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

CNN is able to report in Iran only with the Iranian government’s permission.

 

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Blackened rain reported in Tehran after Israeli attacks​

Tehran is covered in thick black clouds of smoke after a series of Israeli airstrikes struck multiple oil depots and a refinery, Iran, on March 8, 2026. (Photo via X)

By Newsroom
March 08, 2026 10:21 AM GMT+03:00

Tehran is covered in thick black clouds of smoke after a series of Israeli airstrikes struck multiple oil depots and a refinery, Iran, on March 8, 2026. (Photo via X)
Residents in Tehran woke to thick black clouds and blackened rain after Israeli strikes hit oil storage sites in the Iranian capital, according to reporting by CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen.

Tehran, a city of nearly 10 million people, experienced rainfall that appeared to be mixed with oil following the attacks.

“You can see that the rain, the rainwater, is actually black—also saturated, it appears, with oil,” Pleitgen reported from Tehran.

“So that’s what’s coming down this morning, this sort of oil-filled rain that we have right now in the Iranian capital, after the strikes took place,” he said.

Israeli military says fuel sites targeted​

The Israeli military said it struck fuel distribution sites in Tehran on Saturday evening.

According to the IDF, the facilities distribute fuel “to various consumers, including military entities in Iran.”

“This is a significant strike that constitutes an additional step in deepening the damage to the military infrastructure of the Iranian terrorist regime,” the Israeli military said in a statement.

War intensifies as global reactions emerge​

The strikes were part of a fresh wave of Israeli attacks targeting Iran’s energy resources.

U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed threats from Iran’s top security official, saying, “I couldn’t care less,” and signaled that attacks on Iran would intensify this weekend.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for an end to the conflict, warning that the “flames of war” risk spreading.

 

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Like that will die of lung cancer faster or not huh?

 

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This is the way, fuck climate change

 

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This is the way, fuck climate change

Like that the streets and road will become very oily. How to walk huh?

 

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"It feels like we're suffocating," Tehran resident says after fresh strikes​

By Leila Gharagozlou and Sophie Tanno

Smoke continues to rise after a reported strike on fuel tanks in an oil refinery, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran on Sunday.

Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters

A Tehran resident told CNN Sunday the city feels apocalyptic after fresh Israeli attacks targeted Iran’s oil storage sites and saw a huge fireball erupt in the Iranian capital.

“The city is dark, the sky is black,” they told CNN.

“It’s also cloudy and dark on top of that so it feels like we’re suffocating.”

“I saw the explosion last night light up the sky it was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. It looked like the end of times, or the way I’d imagine hell,” they added.

“The fire was close to our house, I think it’s sheer luck that we’re ok right now.”

Our team on the ground earlier reported the city awoke this morning to a sky overcast with thick black clouds and blackened rainwater following the Israeli strikes.