India, March 8 -- The scenes in Tehran on Sunday was nothing short of an apocalypse - thick black clouds of smoke, blazing flames on horizon, and gasoline pipelines exploding - push the US-Iran conflict into a 'dangerous phase'.

The Iranian capital woke up to a 'dark' morning as thick black smoke billowed from oil depots burning after Israeli attacks on oil storage facilities.

The fire erupted after Israeli strikes targeted the Aghdasieh oil warehouse in northeast Tehran, the Shahran oil depot in the west of the capital and an oil depot in the Karaj city. The Israeli military confirmed the strike saying it struck "fuel storage facilities in Tehran" that claimed "to operate military infrastructure".

Visuals on the social media showed to...