Israel-Iran War Live: Over 80 Killed In Fresh Wave of Strikes, Iran Halts Production At World's Largest Gas Field

Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday, with direct strikes targeting its energy industry and Defence Ministry headquarters, while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles blamed for the deaths of four people.

New explosions boomed across Tehran as Iranian missiles entered Israel’s skies in an attack that Israeli emergency officials said killed four people in an apartment building in the Galilee region.

Iran launched a second round of missiles against Israel late Saturday as Israel’s military kept up attacks in Iran following earlier strikes that targeted nuclear and military sites. They also killed key leaders in the country’s governing theocracy.

Israel said hundreds of airstrikes over the past two days killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in Iran’s nuclear programme, in addition to several top generals. Iran’s UN ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded.

The US and Iran had been scheduled to hold their sixth round of indirect talks over Iran’s nuclear programme on Sunday in Oman, but Oman’s foreign minister said that the meeting was cancelled after Israel’s strikes on Iran.

The latest US-Iran talks on Tehran’s rapidly-advancing nuclear programme will not take place on Sunday, mediator Oman said on Saturday, while Iran launched another missile barrage a day after Israel’s blistering attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites.

Both Israel’s military and Iran’s state television announced the latest round of missiles as explosions were heard overhead in parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv, less than an hour before midnight. Fire officials reported a collapsed building in the north. Neighboring Jordan said it has closed its airspace.

Israel’s military quickly noted that it was currently striking “military targets” in Tehran, where witnesses said they heard at least two strong explosions, in the city’s northeast and western areas.

Iran has partially suspended gas production at the world’s biggest gas field after an Israeli strike caused a fire there on Saturday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, in what would be the first Israeli strike on Iran’s oil and gas sector.

Iran shares the South Pars gas field with Qatar. Striking it would mark a major escalation in the conflict, which had already pushed oil prices up 9% on Friday even though Israel spared Iran’s oil and gas on the first day of its attacks.

Israel launched an air offensive against Iran on Friday, killing commanders and scientists and bombing nuclear sites in a stated bid to stop Tehran building an atomic weapon.

Iranian parliament’s security commission, said the country was seriously reviewing the possible closure of the Strait in response to Israel’s attacks.

The Strait carries between 18 and 20 million barrels per day, so almost 20 percent of the global oil market passes through the Strait of Hormuz,

There is no real easy alternative route out of that area for Saudi Arabia, for Kuwait.”

Israeli emergency teams responded early Sunday to multiple missile strikes from Iran that damaged several buildings near Tel Aviv, according to the country’s Fire and Rescue service. An eight-story building in the Dan district was directly hit, while another nearby residential structure also sustained damage, CNN reported.

The Fire and Rescue agency added that several buildings in the Central district were struck as well, with a fire breaking out in an open area. Photos released by the agency showed responders combing through rubble and debris at the impacted sites.

“A short time ago, alerts were activated in several areas of the country following the discovery of missiles launched from Iran into the territory of the State of Israel,” a spokesperson for the military said in a statement.

“The public is asked to obey the instructions of the Home Front Command. At this time, the Air Force is working to intercept and attack wherever necessary to eliminate the threat. The defence is not hermetic, and therefore the instructions of the Home Front Command must continue to be obeyed.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has released a statement about tonight’s attack on Israel.

The IRGC said Israeli facilities “involved in the production of fighter jet fuel and energy supply centres” were targeted tonight.

In the statement, the IRGC said that Iran’s attack will “intensify” if Israeli attacks continue.

Elsewhere in the statement, the IRGC claimed that Iran has “tracked and destroyed three cruise missiles, 10 drones, and dozens of hostile micro-UAVs” in areas of Iran that were attacked.

The Israel Defense Force is now saying that residents in some parts of central and northern Israel are now “permitted to leave protected spaces”.

Earlier, the IDF said that residents must enter protected spaces upon receiving alerts and remain there until further notice.

Iran has fired two waves of missiles into Israel overnight.

One strike killed at least five people when missiles hit a residential neighbourhood near Haifa in the north of country, according to multiple Israeli news outlets.

Another set of strikes Tel Aviv killed a 60-year-old woman, according to the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA). A further 20 people have been injured in the same area, as well as 24 people in the Judean Foothills, a spokesperson for the MDA added.

The Israeli military said in a social media post that it attacked the Iranian Ministry of Defence headquarters, in addition to other targets, in the Iranian capital.

“The [Israeli army] completed an extensive series of strikes on targets in Tehran related to the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons project,” the military said in a social media post.

“The targets included the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters, the headquarters of the SPND nuclear project, and additional targets, which advanced the Iranian regime’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and where the Iranian regime hid its nuclear archive.”

The IDF published a video showing Israeli Air Force combat helicopters intercepting drones launched from Iran overnight.

“Alpha on target – hit,” the pilot can be heard saying in the clip.

Tensions and escalations are ramping up to an unprecedented level between Iran and Israel.

Iran is now striking back after the Israelis started military operations – strikes across the country targeting different, nuclear, military and civilian infrastructure inside Iran and here, in the capital.