Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that his country will not surrender to Israel and the United States.
“The enemies must take their wish for the surrender of the Iranian people to their graves,” said Pezeshkian, in a speech broadcast on state TV.
He apologised to neighbouring countries for Iran’s attacks.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they had targeted an oil tanker in the Gulf in their conflict with Israel and the United States.
“This morning, an oil tanker with the trade name Prima was hit by an exploding drone after ignoring repeated warnings from the IRGC naval forces regarding the prohibition of traffic and the insecurity of the Strait of Hormuz,” the Guards said in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.
The Guards earlier said they were “waiting” for US forces to escort ships through the strait.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they have targeted three locations of “separatist groups” in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
“If separatist groups in the region (of Kurdistan) make any move against Iran’s territorial integrity, we will crush them,” said the Guards in a statement carried by Tasnim news agency.
Israel’s military said more than 80 fighter jets completed a wave of “broad-scale” strikes on Iranian military sites, missile launchers and other targets in Tehran and central Iran on Saturday.
Israel’s military said jets hit an academy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards which “was being used as an emergency asset”.
Israeli and US attacks on the central province of Isfahan killed at least eight people on Saturday, a provincial official said.
Iran’s army said Saturday its navy had launched a wave of drone attacks targeting Israel as well as US bases in the UAE and Kuwait.
Foreign ministers of the Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss “Iranian attacks on the territories of several Arab countries”, the bloc’s assistant secretary-general told AFP.
The meeting, which will be held via videoconference, was requested by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Jordan and Egypt, Hossam Zaki said.
Emirates said it was suspending all flights to and from Dubai until further notice, after an explosion was heard over Dubai airport on Saturday, with a witness describing a cloud of smoke in the air to AFP.
The Flightradar24 tracking website showed planes circulating above the airport in an apparent holding pattern.
Limited flights resumed from Dubai’s main airport, the world’s busiest for international traffic, on Monday. Dubai Media Office described “a minor incident resulting from the fall of debris after an interception” in a post on X.
AFP journalists heard explosions in Dubai and Bahrain’s capital, Manama, on Saturday, one week into Iran’s retaliatory attacks on targets around the Gulf.
A warning siren sounded in Manama, with Bahrain’s interior ministry urging residents in an X post to “head to the nearest safe place”.
Lebanese official media reported on Saturday that clashes had erupted as Israeli forces attempted a landing operation along the Lebanon-Syria border, with militant group Hezbollah saying its fighters were involved.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA), citing the Lebanese health ministry, said Israeli strikes on Nabi Sheet killed at least three people and wounded 16 others.
The US State Department approved the “emergency” sale of 12,000 bomb casings to Israel on Friday the war escalates.
“The proposed sale will improve Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serve as a deterrent to regional threats,” the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said.
The Israeli military said that air defences were responding to Iranian missile attacks on Saturday that sparked air raid alerts across the country.
Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said Saturday it intercepted a ballistic missile fired at an air base which houses US military personnel, as Iran pressed attacks across the Gulf.
The oil-rich nation’s state news agency said it thwarted a drone attack on an oilfield near the Emirati border, following at least two reported drone attacks earlier this week that targeted the Ras Tanura refinery in the east.
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