CNN senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen reported \u201coil-filled rain\u201d is falling from the sky in Iran and leaving the ground a blackened and wet mess on Sunday, following an Israeli strike on Iranian oil facilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what Tehran is waking up to this morning, the sky above the city is covered in very thick black clouds,\u201d Pleitgen reported.<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s also raining, but you can see that the rain water is actually black. [It\u2019s] saturated it appears with oil.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CNN camera captured grey clouds hovering all around Pleitgen in the background, before panning down to show him swiping his foot through slushy black rain atop a building roof. Pleitgen also showed the water running down the sides of the building was black.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaining oil in Tehran,\u201d\u00a0CNN anchor Jim Sciutto\u00a0said when the broadcast cut back to the studio.<\/p>\n
Sciutto then noted \u201cCNN can only operate in Iran with the country\u2019s government approval.\u201d Pleitgen has been reporting from Iran for the past few days amid continued U.S. and Israeli strikes on the country.<\/p>\n
The black rain he highlighted appears to be connected to Israeli missiles striking key oil facilities inside Iran on Saturday.\u00a0The New York Times reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Ministry of Oil said in a statement that multiple oil storage depots in the provinces of Tehran and Alborz had been targeted.<\/p>\n The Israeli military confirmed in a statement that it had attacked several fuel storage and energy complexes in Tehran, saying the facilities were being used by Iran\u2019s armed forces. Israel\u2019s military called it a \u201csignificant strike\u201d aimed at dismantling the military infrastructure of the government.<\/p>\n Several videos on X on Saturday showed parts of Iran engulfed by huge blazes, including the clip below shared by Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.<\/p>\n Those clips came a week after the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes killed\u00a0Iranian Supreme Leader\u00a0Ali Khamenei\u00a0and dozens of other leaders from the country\u2019s theocratic regime.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump said on Friday there will be no peace deal with Iran until there is an \u201cUNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and the country selects a \u201cGREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s).\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTheir army is gone, their navy is gone, their communications are gone, their leaders are gone \u2014 two sets of leaders are gone, they\u2019re down to their third set,\u201d Trump said<\/a>. \u201cTheir air force is wiped out entirely\u2026 other than that, they\u2019re doing very well.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch above via CNN.<\/p>\n The post \u2018Raining Oil in Tehran\u2019: CNN Captures Black Rain Falling From Iran\u2019s Sky After Israeli Strike on Oil Facilities<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen reported \u201coil-filled rain\u201d is falling from the sky in Iran and leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5920,3506,34,72,5671,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-10249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-black-rain","9":"tag-frederik-pleitgen","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israeli-military","12":"tag-oil-facilities","13":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116196881586376467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}