Sirens rang out across multiple areas of Israel on Sunday night after missiles were launched from Iran towards the country, the Israeli military said. Earlier, Tehran's top negotiator in talks with the U.S. threatened to target Israeli and American assets in the region, after Israel struck Beirut.
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Moshen Rezaei, an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, has confirmed Iran's strikes on Israel.
Rezaei said Tehran had repeatedly warned that it would not tolerate ceasefire violations and attacks on Lebanon and that the strikes tonight constituted the so-called aggressors receiving their response.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards has ordered Israel to stop its attacks on Lebanon or face "more crushing and regretful blows."
Meanwhile, Iran's state media has confirmed a second wave of missiles towards Israel. The country's military has said it has detected the additional launches.
U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the esalation, according to American news website Axios.
Sirens are also sounding in Jordan, state TV from the Arab kingdom reports.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has said that missiles have been launched from Iran towards Israel. Defence systems have been activated to intercept the threat and sirens have sounded in several areas.
The U.S. naval blockade of Iran and Washington's green light on Sunday for Israel to escalate attacks in Lebanon make U.S. bases and Israeli assets in the Middle East legitimate targets, Iran's top negotiator has said in a post on X.
The comments from Iran's Parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, follow Israeli attacks on the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital, a stronghold of Iran's ally, political and militant group Hezbollah.
"They are neither committed to a ceasefire nor believe in dialogue, and through the naval blockade and violation of agreements regarding Lebanon they showed that they only understand the language of power," Ghalibaf said in an apparent reference to the U.S. and Israel.
Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Rezaei has threatened Israel with a "decisive and painful response" in a post on social media, after the country's military struck a site in Beiruit's southern suburbs.
Earlier, the Israeli government said it had carried out an attack on a "terrorist" headquaters in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in the Lebanese capital.
Israel said the strike was in response to Iran-backed Hezbolllah firing towards Israeli territory.
Iranian assets won't be unfreezed, nor sanctions lifted, before a peace deal with Tehran is reached, U.S. President Donald Trump has said.
Speaking on NBC News, Trump said he would only consider such steps after an agreement was finalised.
"Comes after," he said. "Yeah. If they behave, if they do a good job, we start talking."
A draft resolution the U.S. has sent to other countries on the board of the UN nuclear watchdog (International Atomic Energy Agency) demands Iran provide "precise information" on its bombed nuclear sites and enriched uranium stocks.
Iran must "provide the Agency with precise information on nuclear material accountancy and safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran" and "grant the Agency all access it requires to verify this information" without delay, the text seen by Reuters on Sunday said.
The Israeli military has struck "terrorist" headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a joint statement with Defence Minister Israel Katz.
The site was located in a Hezbollah stronghold in Beiruit's southern suburbs known as Dahiyeh.
The two government figures said the strike was in response to Hezbolllah firing towards Israeli territory.
The Israeli military has told residents of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre and surrounding areas to evacuate ahead of possible strikes.
Earier, the Israeli military said it had intercepted two projectiles that crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon. Responsibility for the launches has yet to be claimed.
The global economy and trade growth is expected to massively slow down this year amid disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz affecting oil, natural gas, and fertiliser supplies over the past near-100 days.
The armed conflict in the Middle East has led to major challenges for the global economy, not to mention the loss of human lives.
Iran largely halted commercial maritime shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel’s pre-emptive attacks on the country.
Around 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) gas trade, 30% of fertilizer trade, around 40% of urea supply, 50% of sulfur supply, and 30% of phosphate supply were affected by the disruption.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met in Tehran on Sunday with Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi amid Pakistan-led mediation efforts between Iran and the U.S. to end their conflict.
The two sides discussed the latest diplomatic developments in the Iran-U.S. talks as well as situation in the region during the meeting, Iran's state-run news agency IRNA reported.
Naqvi arrived in Tehran on Saturday for talks with senior Iranian officials as part of Islamabad's ongoing mediation efforts between Tehran and Washington.
Iran’s World Cup squad has been told it must enter and leave the U.S. on the same day as its matches there, the Iranian envoy to Mexico told reporters on Sunday.
Due to the U.S.-Israeli war with Tehran, Iran's World Cup team is now in Mexico, abandoning its original plans to train in Tucson, in the U.S. state of Arizona.
"We can enter in the morning and we must leave the same day,” Ambassador Abolfazl Pasandideh told reporters, citing visa restrictions.
The Israeli military said on Sunday it intercepted two projectiles that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory, after sirens sounded in the areas of Yiftah and Ramot Naftali.
Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that he was carrying a special message from the country’s political and military leadership to Iran’s leader during a visit to Tehran amid renewed diplomatic efforts between Tehran and Washington.
“I think this is an important message,” Naqvi said, expressing hope that regional crises could be resolved through diplomacy.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday that American forces shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones over the Strait of Hormuz. According to the report, the drones posed a threat to international maritime traffic in the strategic waterway.
"Earlier today, U.S. forces in the Middle East shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones that threatened international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz," CENTCOM wrote on X.
Hezbollah said its fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank near the town of Hadatha and attacked Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of Yohmor al-Shaqif in southern Lebanon.
The group said the strikes followed at least 25 operations carried out against Israeli military positions and troops on Saturday.
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