Farsi-language Telegram channels report a massive black cloud of smoke over Manama, Bahrain, following strikes on fuel tanks. The incident occurs shortly after Iranian commanders threatened to ignite regional energy infrastructure.
Multiple Iranian and regional conflict-monitoring Telegram channels are reporting a major incident at fuel storage facilities in the capital of Bahrain.
According to the war-tracking channel خبرفوری ࡆ اخبارفوری مذاکره ࡆ جنگ فوری, which monitors the ongoing military conflict from an Iranian perspective, there is a "black cloud of smoke over Manama due to fuel tanks being hit."
This exact phrasing was amplified by the regional conflict-focused channel اخبار جنگ | ایران | افغانستان, which echoed the report of strikes on the fuel reservoirs. A third Farsi-language channel, خبری پلاس|خبرفوری, circulated the identical text alongside video footage of the resultant smoke cloud.
The strikes on fuel tanks in Bahrain occur amid severe regional escalation. Following an unprecedented wave of joint US-Israeli airstrikes across Iran between March 9 and March 13, 2026, commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to ignite all energy infrastructure in the Middle East. The incident in Manama takes place concurrently with the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, the halting of Kuwaiti oil production, and global oil prices surging past $120 a barrel.
All three channels utilized identical phrasing to report the event, indicating a coordinated messaging effort or a single shared source of origin across Iranian Telegram networks. The third channel explicitly indicated the inclusion of video footage (using a camera emoji), though the video itself is not accessible via the text alone.