Iranian media reports that air defenses have been deployed in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas in response to Israeli attacks, the BBC reports.
According to the Tasnim news agency, a media outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Israeli drones were tracked, intercepted and destroyed.
A similar story was reported in Bandar Lengeh, not far from Bandar Abbas on the southern coast of Iran.
Israeli officials have told the administration of US President Donald Trump that they do not want to wait two weeks for Iran to reach a deal to dismantle key parts of its nuclear program and that Israel could act on its own before the deadline, two sources said, amid ongoing debate within Trump's team about whether the United States should get involved.
Two sources familiar with the situation said Israel conveyed its concerns to Trump administration officials on Thursday in what they described as a tense phone conversation.
The head of Iran's atomic agency, Mohammad Eslami, said the heavy water reactor in Arak, which Israel struck earlier this week, was intended for "health and medicine."
"The products of the heavy water plant in Arak are used in the fields of health and medicine. You (Israel) are targeting a center active in the field of medical radiopharmaceutical research," Eslami said, according to a government statement, AFP reported.
Israel said on Thursday it had struck "dozens" of Iranian targets, including the partially constructed Arak nuclear reactor and the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz.
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The Iranian armed forces threatened tonight to target military aid shipments to Israel, on the ninth day of war between the two hostile countries.
"We warn that sending any military equipment or radar by ship or plane, from any country, to aid the Zionist regime, will be considered participation in aggression against Iran and will constitute a legitimate target for the armed forces," an unnamed military spokesman said in a video broadcast on state television.
Iranian President Masoud Pezizian said earlier today that his country would respond "even more devastatingly" to continued Israeli "aggression."
"Our response to the Zionist regime's continued aggression will be even more devastating," he said in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, the IRNA news agency reported.
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The Israeli military said it had launched strikes on the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas, targeting a "weapons depot" and sites for "drones," the BBC reported.
Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted "fighter jets belonging to the Iranian armed forces" and "military infrastructure" in central Iran.
Iran has arrested a German citizen accused of "espionage in sensitive military and nuclear areas," according to state broadcaster Channel Two, which aired a report on him yesterday, the BBC reports.
He is described as a "Jewish German dual citizen and spy," and the report shows him being detained in the central Markazi province.
Officials claimed he had "dozens of cases of espionage and/or sabotage."
The report states that he entered Iran "disguised as a tourist" but is said to have "filmed sensitive areas across the country."
There has been a sharp increase in Israel-related arrests in Iran in recent days.
An unspecified number of people in several provinces, including Markazi, Isfahan, and Tehran, have been detained on related charges since the start of the Israeli attacks on Iran.
The BBC cannot independently confirm the allegations against these individuals.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has named potential new military commanders in case they are killed, as well as senior clerics to replace him in case he is also killed or removed, the New York Times reported tonight.
A member of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran, along with a member of an Iraqi armed group close to Iran, a senior Lebanese security source confirmed to Reuters, while the Iraqi group also confirmed the information on Saturday.
The source identified the Hezbollah member as Abu Ali Khalil, who previously served as a bodyguard for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. According to the source, Khalil was on a religious pilgrimage in Iraq when he encountered Kataeb member Sayyid al-Shuhada.
They traveled together to Tehran, where they were both killed in an Israeli strike, along with Khalil's son, a senior security source said, Reuters reported.
Hezbollah has not so far been involved in Iranian missile attacks on Israel from Lebanon.
The Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada group issued a statement confirming that the head of their security unit and Abu Ali Khalil were both killed in the Israeli strike.
Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut in September.
Israel and Iran have been exchanging attacks for the ninth day in a row, since Israel launched an offensive against Iran, claiming that Tehran is close to developing nuclear weapons. Iran, on the other hand, says it does not seek nuclear weapons.
Powerful explosions were heard in central and northern Tehran tonight, AFP journalists reported from the scene, on the ninth day of the Iran-Israel war.
It is not yet known whether the explosions were caused by Israeli strikes or Iranian air defense fire.
Earlier, Iranian media reported that at least five Iranian soldiers were killed and nine wounded in an Israeli attack in western Iran today. "Five army officers were killed and nine were wounded in today's attack by the Israeli regime on the city of Sumar," in the western province of Kermanshah, the Fars news agency reported, citing local authorities.
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At least five soldiers have been killed in an Israeli attack on the town of Sumar in western Iran, the Fars news agency reported, BBC reports.
Nine people were also injured in the attack, according to Iranian media citing the acting governor of the city of Qasr-e-Shirin.
Iranian President Masoud Pazakhstani says his country will not suspend its nuclear activities or give up its right to pursue a civilian nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported.
In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Pezeshkian reportedly said that Iran was ready to provide guarantees to build confidence in Iran's nuclear activities, but that its nuclear program could not be taken away by threats or war.
Pezeshkian also warned Macron that his country's response to continued Israeli attacks would be "more devastating," IRNA reported.
Pezeshkian said Iran was "ready for dialogue and cooperation to build trust regarding the country's peaceful nuclear activities," the agency added.
The United States is moving B-2 bombers to the Pacific island of Guam, two US officials told Reuters on Monday, as US President Donald Trump considers whether the US should participate in Israeli strikes on Iran.
Reuters reports that it was not clear whether the bomber deployment was related to tensions in the Middle East.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have provided additional details about their attacks in southwest Iran, the BBC reports.
"Earlier today, around 30 Air Force fighter jets, under the intelligence guidance of the Intelligence Department, attacked dozens of military targets in the Mahvaz area in southwestern Iran with more than 50 pieces of ammunition," they wrote on the social network X.
The target was a military site that stores rocket launchers and other military infrastructure, the statement added.
"The IDF continues to intensify its attacks on the Iranian regime's military capabilities in order to maintain the security of the State of Israel," the IDF said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accused Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps of attempting to attack Israeli citizens in Cyprus, Reuters reported.
In a post on the social network X, Sar said the attack was prevented "thanks to the activities of the Cypriot security authorities, in cooperation with Israeli security services."
Sar did not provide details about the nature of the attack. There was no immediate comment from Iran.
Israel attacked Iran's nuclear power plant in Isfahan, the United Nations (UN) Atomic Energy Agency confirmed.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, says Israel attacked a centrifuge workshop, where machines for enriching uranium were manufactured.
"We know this facility well. There was no nuclear material at this site and therefore an attack on it will not have radiological consequences," says Grossi.
This is the third such facility that Israel has targeted in Iran since the fighting began on June 13, the agency said. Israel previously attacked a Tehran research center and a workshop in the city of Karaj, it said.
Grossi told the UN Security Council on Friday that "attacks on nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic of Iran have caused a sharp deterioration in nuclear security" in the country, adding: "Although they have not yet led to a radiological release that would affect the public, there is a risk that this could happen."
Yemen's Houthis will target US ships in the Red Sea if Washington intervenes in Israeli attacks on Iran, the group's military spokesman said on Monday, Reuters reported.
In May, the United States and the Houthis agreed to a ceasefire under which neither side would target the other.
A senior Iranian official said on Saturday that proposals put forward by European powers during talks in Geneva on Iran's nuclear program were "unrealistic," and stressed that if the Europeans stick to their positions, reaching an agreement would be difficult, Reuters reports.
Iranian media has confirmed that another nuclear scientist has been killed in Israeli strikes on the country, bringing the official death toll to ten, the BBC reports.
The death of a scientist named Isar Tabatabey Gomsheh was originally reported in the bulletin of Sharif University in Tehran, where he was a former student.
A university bulletin said he was killed "late last week in his home" along with his wife, Mansureh Hajisalem.
Iran earlier confirmed the deaths of nine more nuclear scientists.
Fereydoun Abbasi was the former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, while Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi was the president of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran.
Abdolhamid Minucher, Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, and Amirhossein Feghi were members of the academic staff at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.
Akbar Motalebizadeh, Ali Bakaei Karimi, Mansur Asgari, and Said Borji were also killed.
Meanwhile, Israel's Channel 12 reported that Israel, as part of "Operation Narnia," "simultaneously" killed nine Iranian nuclear scientists and shortly thereafter killed a tenth Iranian nuclear scientist.
More than 400 people have been killed in Iran in Israeli attacks since the conflict began on June 13, a spokesman for the Iranian Health Ministry said, the BBC reports.
Hosein Kermanpour, wrote on the social network X that 3.056 people were injured in the attacks.
Of the dead, 54 were women and children and five were health workers, he said, before adding that most of the victims and injured were "civilians."
This update is the first official death toll released since June 15, when authorities reported that 224 people had died and over 1.200 were injured.
Earlier, the Noor news agency reported that at least 430 people had been killed and 3.500 injured in Iran over the past nine days, citing the Iranian Health Ministry.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Monday that resuming Iranian-US talks on Tehran's nuclear program was the only way to reach a solution to their dispute and conflict with Israel, the Turkish presidency said, Reuters reported.
Erdogan met with Araqchi on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Istanbul.
In a statement, his office said Erdogan said Israel must be stopped immediately.
Erdogan said Turkey was ready to play a mediator role to help revive nuclear talks, adding that "steps should be taken as soon as possible to open diplomacy through technical and leadership-level talks between Iran and the US," his office added.
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