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IDF says it struck one of Iran’s ‘few remaining’ plants producing materials for ballistic missiles

07 April 2026 11:38 (UTC +04:00)

The IDF confirms bombing another petrochemical facility in Iran yesterday, saying it was “one of the few remaining facilities” used to manufacture materials for ballistic missiles, The Times of Israel reports.

Iranian media reported yesterday that the airstrikes hit the Marvdasht Petrochemical Complex, near Shiraz, hours after the Israeli Air Force bombed Iran’s largest petrochemical facility in Asaluyeh.

In a statement, the IDF says that the facility near Shiraz “was used by Iran’s armed forces to produce nitric acid, a substance necessary for manufacturing explosives and additional materials used in ballistic missile development processes.”

The IDF says the site was “one of the few remaining complexes for producing essential chemical components for explosives and ballistic missile materials in Iran,” following the strikes on the petrochemical facility in Asaluyeh and additional plants struck in southern Iran over the weekend.

“In doing so, the IDF deepened the damage to the regime’s military capabilities, with an emphasis on the production capabilities of weaponry that relied on components from the facility,” the military says.

Also yesterday, the IAF struck a facility of Iran’s ballistic missile forces in northwestern Iran, from which the military says dozens of missiles were fired at Israel.

“The site was struck while soldiers and commanders of the missile array were operating within it to advance and carry out terror activities against the State of Israel and other countries,” the IDF says.

Toghrul Guluzade

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