Israeli raids hit Tehran on Saturday as the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States escalated, with explosions at the capital’s Mehrabad International Airport and other parts of the city.Footage posted on social media showed major strikes and fires at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, where witnesses reported planes burning on the runway after explosions rocked one of the Iranian capital’s main commercial airports.
Israel said it launched “large-scale” strikes on targets in Tehran, while Iranian official media reported an explosion in the western part of the city. An Israeli military statement said that “the Israeli army began a large-scale wave of strikes” on government targets in the Iranian capital.
Follow live updates of the war between the US, Israel and IranEyewitnesses described the Israeli air strikes as particularly intense, saying that the explosions shook homes and sent up plumes of smoke. Others reported explosions around the Iranian city of Kermanshah, an area that includes several missile bases. The witnesses spoke anonymously for fear of retaliation, the Associated Press reported.The Israeli army said earlier that it had detected another round of Iranian missile firing towards Israel.
A series of explosions were later heard in Tel Aviv following the missile launch.Israeli emergency services, Magen David Adom, said they had not received any reports of casualties after the bombing. The army later issued a statement saying that people were free to leave their shelters “in all regions of the country.”While Israeli warplanes bombed Tehran and Beirut, Iran launched more retaliatory strikes against Israel and the Gulf states on the seventh day of the war.
A thunder-like boom was heard in the sky of Jerusalem shortly after midnight local time, as Israel said it was working to intercept missiles launched from Iran.US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent said in a television interview that the “largest bombing campaign” of the war was yet to come.The United States and Israel have carried out repeated strikes on Iran targeting its military capabilities, leadership, and nuclear program, as the goals and timelines of the war continue to change.The latest developments come after escalating tensions in West Asia following a joint US-Israeli military strike on February 28 on Iranian soil that led to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with other prominent figures.In response, Iran launched waves of drone and missile attacks across several Arab countries.
