As a result, four people died, the agency claims. Iranian authorities urged residents not to go out.
The state agency writes that a series of attacks hit the Agdasieh oil warehouse in northeast Tehran and an oil storage facility in Karaj. Black smoke rose to a height of several kilometers and began to settle in the form of oily precipitation at a distance of tens of kilometers from the epicenter of the fires, the report said.
“The rain is black. I can’t believe it. This is even in Tajrish – and this is very far from the oil storage facilities,” Time quotes an eyewitness. Something “like a black monster swallowed the sky over Tehran, as if all the cars and asphalt were painted black,” said another interlocutor of the publication.
“The city is dark, the sky is black. We are suffocating,” CNN reports the words of a Tehran resident.
Al Jazeera, citing humanitarian organizations, writes that explosions of oil storage facilities release toxic hydrocarbons and sulfur oxides into the atmosphere, causing precipitation to acquire strong acidic properties. It is deadly for people to take shelter under trees – the leaves concentrate acid. Streams of burning oil flowed through the streets of Tehran, and buildings were covered with black streaks of soot, notes GB News.
Fox News correspondent Trey Ingst showed a video of a black sky over Tehran.
Videos of black rain over the city are also being published online.
March 8, 2026 – Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night. pic.twitter.com/7MghBnWRRw
— RKOT (@RKOTOfficial) March 8, 2026
Context
On the morning of February 28 Israel announces Operation Lion's Roar in Iran. The US called its actions against Iran “Epic Fury”. White House head Donald Trump announced his intention protect the American peopleeliminating immediate threats from the Iranian regime. On the same day there were liquidated Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 40 other country officials.
Trump said that the new leadership of Iran allegedly offered the States resume negotiations, to which he agreed, but later the head of the White House said that he would not communicate with the Iranians already “too late.” Iran responded that Tehran had not asked for any ceasefire and rejected any negotiations.
The head of the White House also said that he wants personally participate in the selection next leader of Iran. According to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, this is “the exclusive matter of the Iranian people, and no one can interfere.”
After this, Trump said that will not support any agreement other than “unconditional surrender” Tehran, and called for “Make Iran great again.” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called the US demand “a dream that they should take with them to the grave.”
