Tehran was choked in heavy black smoke from strikes that hit an oil refinery, an escalation in attacks to target Iran’s domestic energy supplies which appeared to trigger attacks on Washington’s Gulf Arab allies.
Thick smoke rose from a huge refinery in Bahrain, where state oil company Bapco declared force majeure after it was struck overnight.
The Israeli military said on Monday it had launched attacks in central Iran and struck the Lebanese capital Beirut, where Israel has extended its campaign after the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah fired across the border.
The US military reported a seventh American had died from wounds sustained during Iran’s initial counter-attack a week ago.
Israel’s military said on Sunday two of its soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, the first fatalities among its troops since Israel-Hezbollah hostilities resumed.
At least four people were killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut early on Sunday. Israel said it had targeted Iranian commanders operating in Beirut.
The US-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran’s UN ambassador. Lebanon has reported scores of people killed there.
In Israel, ambulance workers said one man was killed from shrapnel wounds at a construction site on Monday, raising to 11 the death toll in Iranian strikes.