A projectile streaks via the sky over central Israel throughout an Iranian missile assault, Sunday, June 7, 2026.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel launched airstrikes early Monday concentrating on central and western Iran in response to missile hearth from Tehran, assaults that threatened to tug the broader Center East again right into a regional warfare.
Monday marked the a hundredth day of the Iran warfare, launched Feb. 28 when Israel and the USA killed Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and different senior Iranian leaders. The warfare raged till reaching a nominal ceasefire on April 8, however a everlasting finish to the hostilities have been challenged by Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, via which a fifth of all oil and pure fuel traded as soon as handed in peacetime, in addition to combating between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah.
With international vitality provides threatened, Iran nonetheless holding an unlimited stockpile of extremely enriched uranium and even Yemen’s Houthi rebels apparently getting concerned within the combating Monday, the dangers of the warfare absolutely erupting once more seems to be rising.
Israel strikes Iran
Iranian state tv reported the sound of explosions being heard in Isfahan, Karaj, Tabriz and Tehran, with out instantly elaborating. A witness in Tehran described listening to not less than one massive blast someplace to the west of the nation’s capital metropolis. Iran closed the airspace round Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Worldwide Airport, the nation’s important airfield, after the Israeli assault.
Sirens sounded throughout Israel on Monday after its army mentioned a missile launched from Yemen focused the nation, with out elaborating. Israel’s rescue providers mentioned there have been no stories of casualties or impacts from the launch from Yemen.
Yemen is dwelling to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. The Houthis have fired missiles at Israel throughout the Israel-Hamas warfare and later, however have not been absolutely concerned within the Iran warfare. The Houthis didn’t instantly declare the assault, although it could actually take them hours and even days to acknowledge their assaults.
In Iran, officers provided no particulars on what had been struck, nor any harm info. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard mentioned that Israel used air-launched ballistic missiles in its assault Monday morning, with out elaborating.
The Israeli army at daybreak in Iran issued a brief assertion because the strikes began: “A short time in the past, the Israeli Air Power struck army targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran.” It didn’t elaborate.
In Saudi Arabia, missile alert sirens sounded Monday morning in an space dwelling to an air base that hosts U.S. forces. Saudi state media reported the alert round its Al Kharj governorate, dwelling to Prince Sultan Air Base. The alert got here after Israel’s strikes on Iran. Saudi Arabia shortly after mentioned the missile hazard within the space had handed, with out elaborating.
Trump says ‘I name the pictures,’ not Israel
The White Home didn’t reply to messages concerning the strikes and whether or not they had been accomplished in coordination with the U.S.
A senior U.S. official on Sunday mentioned U.S. President Donald Trump had referred to as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to induce him to not retaliate instantly for the Iranian missile assault. The official, who spoke on situation of anonymity to explain a non-public cellphone name, mentioned that Trump believed he had satisfied Netanyahu to attend.
Trump “bought Bibi to carry off in the intervening time,” the official mentioned. The official wouldn’t supply some other particulars of the decision, and there was no speedy remark from Netanyahu’s workplace.
For days, negotiations between Iran and the USA over the delicate ceasefire within the warfare had been stalled by the combating between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah. Israel now occupies southern Lebanon and had moved into areas of the nation it hadn’t held in 1 / 4 century — resulting in fears about them additional widening their marketing campaign.
On Sunday, Israel launched airstrikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Iran retaliated with its personal strike on Israel, which led to Monday morning’s assault by Israel on Iran.
Trump earlier informed a Fox Information Channel reporter that he needed the Iranians to cease firing missiles and return to the negotiating desk. He additionally mentioned that Israel’s strikes in Lebanon earlier Sunday weren’t coordinated with the U.S. and “I am not pleased about it.”
Talking to The Monetary Instances earlier than the Israeli strikes on Iran, Trump insisted he dictated phrases to Netanyahu on how the warfare must be prosecuted.
“He will not have any selection,” Trump informed the newspaper in a phone interview. “I name the pictures. I name all of the pictures. He (Netanyahu) does not name the pictures.”
