The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – which reported to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme chief who was killed in the US-Israeli attacks on Saturday – mentioned right this moment it focused Israel premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace in Tel Aviv in addition to safety and navy centres in Haifa and an assault on east Jerusalem.
“The office of the criminal prime minister of the Zionist regime and the headquarters of the regime’s air force commander were targeted,” the Guards mentioned in an announcement carried by Fars information company.
It mentioned Kheibar missiles had been used within the assault.
A collection of latest explosions had been heard above Jerusalem on Monday, AFP journalists reported, after the Israeli navy mentioned it had detected contemporary missiles launched from Iran.
“A short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the navy mentioned in an announcement.
The European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen slammed “reckless and indiscriminate attacks by Iran and its proxies against sovereign territories across the region,” after strikes hit a British air base in Cyprus and a Saudi oil facility.
“We must work hard to de-escalate and stop the conflict spreading,” von der Leyen informed reporters in Brussels, warning “the stability of the region is of the utmost importance.”
At least 555 folks have been killed in Iran thus far by the US-Israeli marketing campaign, the Iranian Red Crescent Society mentioned.
Israel and the US have struck targets throughout Iran since Saturday. The warfare that started with Khamenei’s killing has engulfed the area, with explosions ringing in Dubai, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere.
Earlier right this moment, black smoke rose from the US embassy in Kuwait, whereas US warplanes crashed with out inflicting casualties, as Iran pressed on with a 3rd day of retaliation within the Gulf.
A US base and an influence station had been additionally focused, in what was probably the most dramatic escalation for the small Gulf nation in many years, after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and Baghdad’s try and take over Kuwait in 1990.
Blasts additionally rang out over the Gulf cities of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and Manama as Iran targets America’s Gulf allies after the killing of its supreme chief.
The embassy in Kuwait didn’t announce it had been hit, however issued a safety alert urging folks to remain away.
“There is a continuing threat of missile and UAV (drone) attacks over Kuwait. Do not come to the embassy,” the assertion mentioned, including: “US embassy personnel are sheltering in place.”
The Iranian assaults have thus far killed 5 folks within the Gulf, in line with authorities, together with one individual in Kuwait.
