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Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other overnight into Sunday, stoking fears of a wider conflict after Israel expanded its surprise campaign against its main rival with a strike on the world's biggest gas field.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday, with direct strikes targeting its energy industry and Defense Ministry headquarters, while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles blamed for the deaths of four people and injuries of many others.
Iranian media reported that Israel struck the South Pars Gas Field in what would be the first attack on an Iranian energy site.
President Trump warned Iran that any attack on U.S. interests would bring a massive retaliation. "The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight," he wrote on the Truth Social platform. "If we are attacked in any way,
Russia has maintained a delicate balancing act in the Middle East for decades, trying to navigate its warm relations with Israel even as it has developed strong economic and military ties with Iran.
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A series of loud explosions are heard in central Israel as the military says it carried out intelligence-based strikes in Tehran.
Under the Islamic Republic that took power in 1979, enmity toward Israel has been a core ideological tenet of Iranian foreign policy and a key driver in its regional policy. Over decades, their rivalry played out mainly through indirect actions by Iran and by covert operations from Israel.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said Israel’s goal in its attack on Iran was to eliminate a dual threat–not just Iran’s nuclear program but also ballistic missiles. There is a major threat from Iran’s ballistic missiles,
Israel’s attack on Iran was long in the making – the result of years of meticulous planning by Israel and days of high-stakes talks between Tel Aviv and Washington, officials told CNN.