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Missiles launched from Iran, Photo: Reuters
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A woman was killed and 13 people were wounded when an Iranian ballistic missile hit a two-story house in the northern Israeli town of Tamra, the Times of Israel reports.

The Israeli Air Force bombed the Shahran oil depot near Tehran, Iranian media reported.

The Israeli army has not commented.

Earlier, Iranian media reported attacks on the South Pars oil field in the southern province of Bushehr.

Both the Israeli military and Iranian state television said the latest series of missiles were fired at Israel earlier tonight. Explosions were heard over parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv, shortly before midnight, the AP reports.

Neighboring Jordan announced it had closed its airspace.

Israel said that hundreds of airstrikes over the past two days had killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in Iran's nuclear program, in addition to several senior generals. Iran's ambassador to the UN said 78 people had been killed and more than 320 wounded.

Three people were killed in earlier Iranian attacks on Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened earlier today to intensify attacks on Iran.

Due to the latest escalation, nuclear talks between Iran and the US, scheduled to be held tomorrow in Oman, have been canceled.

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23h21PM

Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency services said about 14 people were injured in a two-story house in the Western Galilee, the BBC reported.

One person is in critical condition, while the others have varying degrees of injuries, the service said.

Israeli police said they had received reports of an explosive device falling in a community in the Northern District.

Initial reports indicate that there are several casualties and material damage at the scene, the statement said. 

The Israel Fire and Rescue Service says it has responded to several incidents in coastal and northern parts of the country, including rubble, damage to residential buildings and fires in open areas. Fire crews are on the way, the unit said.

Iranian state television announced that Iran launched the second wave of its "Operation True Promise Three" against Israel tonight. State television said that this time the attack was a combination of drones and "more than 100" missiles, and that the main targets tonight were the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv.

"The attack will disrupt the residents' sleep," state television said.

The BBC also reported that sirens sounded in northern Israel, and that Israeli media reported that explosions were heard in the Haifa and Kiryat areas, adding that it was not yet clear whether the rockets fell to the ground or were intercepted.

The BBC also reported that the Israeli Defense Forces announced that their air force was attacking military targets in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in parallel with activities to intercept missiles launched from Iran.

(BBC, N.V.)

23h08PM

Iran said that the Shahran oil depot in Tehran was the target of today's Israeli attack, but that "the situation was under control," Reuters reported.

"The amount of fuel in the targeted tank was not large and the situation is completely under control," the Iranian Oil Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run news agency SHANA.

The BBC reported that it can confirm that Israel hit the Shahran oil depot.

Tehran's fire department had previously warned that the Shahran oil depot was a high-risk location because it was located too close to where people live in the city.

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22h45PM

The Israeli military announced that Iran had attacked again and that explosions were heard in many parts of the country.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced earlier today an intensification of attacks on Iran.

Tensions escalated into open conflict when Israel attacked Iran, and Tehran retaliated this morning.

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22h28PM

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned Israeli attacks on Iran as a violation of international law and warned that the attacks threaten to destabilize the region.

He said this today in a telephone conversation with Iranian President Masoud Peskov, his office announced, Anadolu Agency reports.

In addition to the conflict between Israel and Iran, they also discussed broader regional and global issues.

Erdogan expressed condolences for those killed in the Israeli attacks and said that the attacks were part of an attempt by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sabotage the nuclear talks. He added that Israel was trying to divert the international community's attention from the genocide in Gaza.

The Turkish president stressed that Ankara is closely monitoring reports of a possible nuclear leak at the Iranian Natanz facility and reiterated that diplomacy is the only viable path to resolving the issue of the nuclear program.

He also spoke on the phone today about this topic with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Jordanian King Abdullah II.

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21h26PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an intensification of attacks on Iran.

Netanyahu said the Israeli strikes had set back Iran's nuclear program by probably years and rejected international calls for restraint.

"We will attack every location and every target of the ayatollah regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared to what will be inflicted on them in the coming days," he said in a video message.

Tehran has canceled a new round of nuclear talks with the US that were scheduled for tomorrow in Oman.

In addition to destroying the highest echelon of Iranian military command, Israel appears to have struck Iran's oil and gas industry for the first time, with Iranian state media reporting a fire at a gas field, Reuters reports.

Israeli authorities said about 60 people, including 29 children, were killed in the attack on the apartment complex, and more attacks were reported across the country. Israel said it struck more than 150 targets.

In retaliation, Iran attacked and killed at least three people in Israel.

US President Donald Trump praised the Israeli attacks and warned Iran of much worse things to come.

He said it was not too late to stop the Israeli attacks, but only if Tehran quickly agreed to sharply reduce its enriched uranium levels at talks with Washington scheduled for tomorrow.

Host Oman confirmed today that the next round of talks had been cancelled. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said holding the talks while Israeli "barbaric" attacks continue was unjustified.

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21h21PM

US President Donald Trump said today that "this war between Israel and Iran needs to end," Reuters reported.

He stated this in a post related to a telephone conversation he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"The conversation (between Trump and Putin) lasted about an hour. He believes, as do I, that this war between Israel and Iran needs to end, to which I explained, his war needs to end too," Trump wrote on the Truth social network.

21h15PM

Iran has partially suspended gas production at the world's largest gas field after an Israeli strike caused a fire on Tuesday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, marking the first Israeli attack on Iran's oil and gas sector.

Iran shares the South Pars gas field with Qatar. An attack on it would mark a major escalation in the conflict, which had already sent oil prices up nine percent on Friday, even though Israel spared Iranian oil and gas on the first day of the attack.

Israel launched an air offensive against Iran on Friday, killing commanders and scientists and bombing nuclear facilities in an attempt to prevent Tehran from building atomic weapons.

The South Pars field is located off the coast of Iran's southern Bushehr province and is responsible for the lion's share of gas production in Iran, the world's third-largest gas producer after the United States and Russia.

The attack caused a fire, which has been extinguished, Iran's oil ministry said. The fire broke out in one of the four units of Phase 14 of South Pars, halting the production of 12 million cubic meters of gas, the Tasnim news agency reported.

Iran produces about 275 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually, or about 6,5 percent of global gas production, and consumes it domestically because it cannot export gas due to sanctions.

Iran shares the field with Qatar, which calls it the North Field. Qatar produces 77 million tons of liquefied natural gas from the field with the help of global giants such as Exxon and Shell, and supplies gas to Europe and Asia.

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21h05PM

Nuclear talks between Iran and the United States (US), scheduled for June 15 in Muscat, have been canceled, Oman's foreign minister announced.

The announcement by Oman's top diplomat Badr Albusaidi came after Iran described the talks as "meaningless", following Israel's attack on Iran on June 13.

Separately, Iranian state media reported that a fire broke out at the South Pars gas field in the southern province of Bushehr in an Israeli attack as the arch-enemies continued to exchange fire on June 14.

The Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), quoted witnesses as saying that infrastructure was hit by micro drones.

(Radio Free Europe)

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Iraq on Monday called on the United States to prevent Israeli planes from violating Iraqi airspace to carry out attacks on Iran, citing bilateral agreements and international law, Reuters reported.

"The Iraqi government calls on the US to fulfill its obligations under the agreements signed between the two countries and prevent aircraft belonging to the Zionist entity from violating Iraqi airspace again," military spokesman Sabah al-Numan said in a statement.

20h37PM

Iranian state television said on Monday that "heavy and destructive" Iranian attacks on Israel were expected in the coming hours, as the Israeli military continued to strike several targets across Iran, Reuters reported.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday that Iran's Nuclear Regulatory Agency had informed it that there had been no change in radiation levels outside the Isfahan site, the site of one of the nuclear targets hit by Israeli forces on Friday, Reuters reported.

Earlier, the IAEA said four critical buildings at the Isfahan nuclear facility were damaged, including a uranium conversion facility and a fuel plate manufacturing plant.

"As at Natanz, no increase in radiation is expected off-site," the agency said in a post on the X network.

19h58PM

Russian and American presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump discussed today the escalation of tensions in the Middle East and peace talks over the war in Ukraine, Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said.

During the 50-minute phone call, Putin briefed Trump on his recent talks with the leaders of Iran and Israel and reiterated Russia's proposal to seek mutually acceptable solutions to Iran's nuclear program.

"The dangerous escalation of the situation in the Middle East was naturally at the center of the exchange of views," Ushakov told reporters.

Trump, he added, described the situation as "very alarming," and neither of them ruled out a possible return to negotiations on Iran's nuclear program.

Putin briefed Trump on the implementation of agreements reached during peace talks in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, including the exchange of prisoners of war.

16h57PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that Israeli strikes have set back Iran's nuclear program, possibly by years, and that more serious blows are yet to come, Reuters reported.

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"We will strike every location and every target of the ayatollah regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared to what will be in the coming days," Netanyahu said in a video message.

He added that the military is now destroying Iran's ability to produce ballistic missiles.

16h56PM

Germany said today that the danger of further escalation in the Middle East is real and that Iran's nuclear program poses a threat not only to Israel but also to Saudi Arabia and the stability of the entire region, Reuters reports.

The Foreign Ministry issued a statement following German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful's visit to Saudi Arabia where he met with his counterpart.

16h45PM

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi in a phone call today that Moscow condemns Israel's use of force against Iran and is ready to help de-escalate the situation in the Middle East, Reuters reports.

Russia is ready to continue working to resolve the issue of Iran's nuclear program, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Iran and Israel exchanged missiles and air strikes on Sunday, a day after Israel launched a full-scale air offensive against its old foe, killing commanders and scientists and bombing nuclear facilities in an attempt to prevent it from building atomic weapons, according to Reuters.

Lavrov expressed condolences to Araqchi for the Iranians killed in the attacks, the statement said.

15h06PM

Reuters published a breaking news report, citing the Iranian news channel Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN), stating that an Iranian lawmaker said that Iran is seriously considering closing the Strait of Hormuz.

The Strait of Hormuz is a key route for around 20 percent of the world's oil flows and an even larger percentage of liquefied natural gas transport, according to Darren Nathan, head of capital markets research at Hargreaves Lansdowne, reports the Guardian.

At the same time, Iranian state media reported a statement by the country's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who said that the continuation of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the US was not justified while the "barbaric" Israeli attacks continued.

On Friday, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that dialogue with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program was pointless after Israel's largest military attack on Iran to date, accusing Washington of supporting the attack.

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An Iranian missile attack wounded seven soldiers in central Israel overnight, a military spokesman said on Saturday, in one of several strikes carried out in response to an Israeli attack on military and nuclear sites.

"Seven... soldiers were lightly injured last night, following an Iranian missile strike in central Israel," the spokesman said, according to Agence France-Presse.

13h19PM

Nine high-ranking Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, an Israeli military official said.

He also told Reuters that they had attacked more than 150 targets in Iran with hundreds of missiles, adding that the nuclear facilities in Esfahan and Natanz had been significantly damaged.

The official said it would take Iran more than a few weeks to repair the damage at those sites.

Iranian state media also confirmed the deaths of nine scientists, reports The Guardian.

11h21PM

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Tehran would burn if Iran continued to fire missiles at Israeli civilians.

"The Iranian dictator is holding the citizens of Iran hostage, creating a reality in which they, and especially the residents of Tehran, will pay a high price for flagrant attacks on Israeli citizens. If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at Israel, Tehran will burn," Katz said in a statement.

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