Israel - Iran missile attack latest: Tehran threatens ‘more crushing attacks’ as reports of Tel Aviv shooting
Iran fires dozens of missiles today in retaliatory attack for Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon
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Iran has threatened “more crushing and destructive” attacks after firing two waves of missiles at Israel.
Iran’s revolutionary guards said they fired dozens of missiles on Tuesday in retaliation for Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, including its killing of the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah.
They added that if Israel retaliated, Tehran’s response would be “more crushing and destructive”, Iranian state TV reported.
Israeli media has reported that more than 100 missiles were fired as civilians took cover in bomb shelters with sirens sounding across the country. No injuries have been reported so far.
Less than an hour after the attack started, Israel’s military sounded the all-clear and said Israelis were free to leave their shelters.
It came as police said six people were killed in a shooting in Tel Aviv, minutes before Iran launched its attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has since spoken to Sir Keir Starmer, who has “condemned Iran’s attack on Israel in the strongest terms”.
The attack comes less than 24 hours after Israel announced it was carrying out “targeted” raids into southern Lebanon. It is the first time Israel has invaded its northern neighbour since 2006, when the two engaged in a month-long all-out war.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei remains in a secure location after Tehran fired missiles at Israel, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday.
He was moved to a secure location after Israel assassinated Iran’s close ally Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week.
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President Joe Biden has directed the US military to aid Israel’s defense against Iranian attacks and shoot down missiles targeting Israel, the White House National Security Council said on Tuesday.
Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris are monitoring the attack from the White House situation room and receiving regular updates, NSC spokesperson Sean Savett said in a post on X.
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Iran’s revolutionary guards say they have launched tens of missiles to Israel on Tuesday (1 October), while Israeli media is reporting that Iran has launched more than 100 missiles at Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly convened at the Israeli security cabinet at the government bunker near Jerusalem.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military had announced that any ballistic missile strike from Iran was expected to be widespread and told the public to shelter in safe rooms in the event of an attack.
Watch live view of Tel Aviv as Iran launches missiles at Israel and sirens sound
Watch a live view of Tel Aviv as Iran launches missiles at Israel and air sirens sound.
Netanyahu reportedly in secure government bunker
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly convened the Israeli security cabinet at the government bunker near Jerusalem.
The IDF has ordered residents to remain close to bomb shelters as air raid sirens sounded across the country.
A series of window-shaking explosions were heard in Tel Aviv and near Jerusalem, though it was not immediately clear whether the sounds were from missiles landing or being intercepted by Israeli defences, or both.
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Donald Trump has weighed in on the missile attack Iran launched at Israel on Tuesday, issuing a rambling, apocalyptic statement in which he declared the world “on fire and spiraling out of control.”
“We have no leadership, no one running the Country,” the former president posted, disingenuously, on his flagging Twitter clone, Truth Social. “We have a non-existent President in Joe Biden, and a completely absent Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco, a City which she and Gavin Newscum totally destroyed, and staging fake photo ops. No one is in charge and it’s not even clear who is more confused: Biden or Kamala. Neither has any idea what is even going on.”
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Iran military warns Israel not to respond or face ‘violent attacks’
The Iranian military has issued a statement following the launch of what appears to be hundreds of missiles against Israel.
They claimed the attack was in response to the assassination of the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, Ismail Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah.
“We began striking important military targets in [Israel] with dozens of missiles,” they said. “If [Israel] responds to the operation, it will face violent attacks.”
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