TEHRAN, March 21: An oil refinery depot in southwestern Iran close to the border with Iraq was hit by a rocket on Friday, and two people were injured, Iranian government sources said.

Tehran immediately lodged a diplomatic protest at the violation of its airspace by US and British planes.

The protest, lodged with the British ambassador in Tehran and his Swiss counterpart, who looks after US interests in Iran.

Iranian officials said it was not clear where the rocket, which hit the depot in the city of Abadan, had come from.

“When it happened the city of Abadan shook,” Hossein, a government employee, said. Abadan is about 50kms east of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, and on the opposite side of the Shatt al-Arab estuary from Iraq’s Faw peninsula.—AFP