The tit-for-tat threats came as the war entered its fourth week and continued to reverberate across the Middle East, with alarm mounting over strikes around nuclear sites. Iran said it would respond to any such attacks by targeting US energy, IT and desalination infrastructure across the region. Iran's energy minister said US-Israeli strikes had already inflicted heavy damage on the country's water and energy infrastructure, with "dozens" of facilities hit. Iran's attacks on Israel indicated that its arsenal still poses a threat across the region, even after Trump and Netanyahu claimed to have decimated Tehran's forces. "The war in the Middle East has reached a perilous stage" with the strikes on Natanz and Dimona, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha March 22, 2026 11:43 UTC