Iran's Vice President Esmael Saghab Esfahani warned on April 24 that any US strike on Iran's oil infrastructure would trigger direct retaliation against Saudi Arabia's energy facilities, threatening that "one of the oil facilities of the countries from whose soil we are attacked will be targeted". He described a tiered retaliatory framework ranging from "an eye for an eye" to an "eye for a head" as escalatory strikes on host-country infrastructure. This raises the risk of a deliberate, targeted campaign against Saudi Aramco's Eastern Province oil facilities, which currently serve as the primary global export lifeline through the East-West pipeline.