Schematic figure of the main structures detected in NGC 7172 overplotted on the PSF-subtracted MIRI F1000W image from Rosario et al. (in prep.). We indicate the aproximate size of the cold molecular gas ring detected with ALMA in red (see AH23), the AGN position with a white star, and the ionised gas outflow direction with yellow arrows (see Sect. 4.1). Red circles indicate the position of several clumps detected in the MIRI image in the direction of the outflow, two of which coincide with the SF clumps seen with the MRS data (see top left panel of Fig. 1, and Sects. 3.3.1 and 4.2). The bright emission crossing the central region from the SE to the NW across the image is a residual diffraction spike not fully eliminated when subtracting the bright PSF (see more details in Rosario et al., in prep.).