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,” which refers to the portion of the disputed city that is fully under Israeli authority, were among the Israeli cities targeted.
Israel’s military claimed to have triggered its air defenses after spotting missiles approaching the nation.
Journalists from AFP reported hearing distant explosions and air raid sirens in Jerusalem.
The US Fifth Fleet naval station in Bahrain and “many US targets in Erbil” in Iraqi Kurdistan were also hit by the missile volley, according to the broadcaster.
Iran has launched waves of retaliation missile fire in response to the Middle East conflict that started on February 28 with US-Israeli assaults on Iran.
The Guards claimed that “a mass” of ballistic missiles had been fired at the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet station in Bahrain and against three other locations in the Kurdish region of Iraq in a previous statement that was published 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 minutes later.
Early on Wednesday, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates claimed drone and missile interceptions, among other new strikes throughout the Gulf area.
