Israel-Iran War Live: IDF Hits Iran Defence Ministry HQ, Missile Barrage Triggers Sirens In Tel Aviv

Israel-Iran Conflict Live Updates: Israel and Iran exchanged a fresh wave of missile attacks overnight into Sunday, escalating tensions and raising fears of a wider regional conflict.

Iran launched missiles at targets across Israel, including the port city of Haifa, after Israeli forces bombed civilian and energy infrastructure across Iran.

Early Sunday, Israel’s military announced it had struck the Iranian defence ministry headquarters in Tehran. It also claimed to have hit several locations around the capital that it described as being “related to the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons project.”

These sites, according to Israel’s military, were connected to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, though both US intelligence agencies and the Atomic Energy Agency have stated that Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon prior to Israel’s attack.

This escalation comes after Israeli armed forces launched an unprecedented attack on Iran and conducted multiple overnight airstrikes, targeting Iran’s nuclear and military sites under ‘Operation Rising Lion’. Iranian media has said that Israeli attacks have killed at least 80 people and wounded 800 others over the past two days.

Justifying the strikes, Israel has said that it had intel indicating that Iran’s nuclear programme had almost reached the ‘point of no return’. Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the recent Israeli airstrikes on Iran, echoing his prior criticism of attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Following the airstrikes, the US-Iran nuclear talks scheduled for Sunday in Oman were called off.