Iran’s national television, IRIB, reported on Wednesday that Iran has launched fresh strikes against American and Israeli targets in the Middle East.
According to the broadcaster, which cited a statement from Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, the three-hour barrage was “the most intense and heaviest since the start of the war.”
Tel Aviv, Haifa, and “West Jerusalem”—the portion of the disputed city under complete Israeli control—were among the Israeli cities it targeted.
Israel’s military claimed to have triggered its air defenses after spotting missiles approaching the nation.
AFP journalists reported hearing air raid sirens in Jerusalem and the sound of explosions in the distance.
The broadcaster said the missile salvo also targeted “numerous US targets in Erbil” in Iraqi Kurdistan and the US Fifth Fleet naval base in Bahrain.
The Middle East war that began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 has provoked waves of retaliatory Iranian missile fire.
The Guards claimed that “a mass” of ballistic missiles had been fired at three different locations in the Kurdish region of Iraq as well as the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet station in Bahrain in a previous statement that was reported by Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
Additionally, the force stated on Tuesday that no US Navy ship had “dared” approach the channel of Hormuz. This was in response to US Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s original statement that the navy had escorted an oil tanker through the channel, which he later deleted.
New attacks were reported across the Gulf region early Wednesday, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates reporting interceptions of missiles and drones.
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