The Iranian capital of Tehran has not run short of basic supplies despite continuous airstrikes by the United States and Israel this month, according to a China Media Group reporter.
Reporter Li Jiannan said on Tuesday that he heard Tehran's air defense system working in the afternoon and verified with local sources that attacks had targeted energy facilities in central Iran's Isfahan and the southwestern city of Khorramshahr.
"I'm currently in Tehran, the capital of Iran. It's around 14:30 local time on the 24th. Just now, I heard the sound of Tehran's air defense system activating. It should be the military attempting to intercept intruding targets," Li said.
Explosions have been heard in Tehran, Karaj, and Tabriz since Monday night, according to Li.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday that U.S. and Israeli forces attacked gas company offices and the gas pressure reduction station in the central Iranian city of Isfahan and targeted a gas pipeline at a power plant in Khorramshahr.
Li said he had called residents in these two cities, who confirmed the attacks, which mainly targeted small facilities rather than large energy infrastructure, and had not damaged power and water supplies.
In northeast Tehran, half of an eight-story residential building was completely destroyed in airstrikes on Monday.
By Tuesday afternoon, Israeli and U.S. airstrikes had damaged 82,417 civilian buildings across Iran, including 62,440 residential buildings, since the attacks began on Feb 28, according to the latest data from the Iranian Red Crescent.
In Tehran alone, airstrikes have damaged 25,280 residential and commercial facilities, data showed.
The Iranian Red Crescent said 281 hospitals, 498 schools, and 17 Red Crescent centers have also been damaged across the country.
Iran's police said on Tuesday that they had arrested 466 people accused of stirring public opinion, engaging in online propaganda, and spreading public fear and anxiety in cooperation with the U.S. and Israel.
Tehran residents not experiencing significant shortages despite continuous airstrikes: CMG reporter
Tehran residents not experiencing significant shortages despite continuous airstrikes: CMG reporter
China's green energy transition offers a stable path forward as the world faces an uncertain energy supply landscape which has been plunged into further doubt amid recent geopolitical tensions, global business leaders said on the sidelines of the China Development Forum 2026 in Beijing.
The two-day forum, which wrapped up in the Chinese capital on Monday, brought together senior global business representatives and scholars to explore shared opportunities emerging from China's pursuit of high-quality growth.
The forum also detailed the vision and direction of China's 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), a key blueprint outlining the country's socioeconomic development goals through to the end of the decade.
It also came against a backdrop of global economic turbulence, with the escalating conflict in the Middle East, along with disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in increasing volatility in oil prices.
Business leaders say that these developments are reshaping the global energy supply landscape and further highlight the value of the new energy industry.
"We've seen now the disruption in fossil fuel. We've seen how incredibly unreliable it is if you're relying on gas, then you face a very uncertain future," said Andrew Forrest, executive chairman and founder of Australian mining giant Fortescue.
"Energy is the life bloodline and support of every business in technology, but I think energy is going to change drastically," said Jack Perry, chairman of the 48 Group which promotes equal and mutually beneficial trade between the United Kingdom and China.
Given the present uncertainty across much of the globe, investors are increasingly shifting their focus to China, whose steadfast push towards green energy is offering not just an alternative, but a more stable path forward in the current choppy waters.
The energy transition is laid out as one of the priorities in the country's latest five-year plan, which proposes accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development and emphasizes the building of "a Beautiful China".
"I see a lot in three words which are in that plan, which says: 'a beautiful China'. Now, those three words seem quite innocuous, quite non-important, but they're in fact very powerful because economic development without environmental development is never sustainable," said Forrest.
Many firms who have long-term experience of operating in China are also encouraged by the vast potential of some of the newly emerging sectors, such as electric vehicles and other high-tech innovations, which are likely to serve as future growth drivers.
"We've been invested in China for 170 years continuously. What we see right now is a thriving innovation economy, which is of course EVs and green tech, but increasingly chips and other areas that are [fast developing]," said Bill Winters, Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered, a British multinational banking firm.
China's green energy transition offers stable path forward amid global uncertainty: business leaders
