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US and Israel attack Iran as Tehran retaliates across Middle East
• US and Israel strike Iran: The US and Israel have attacked Iran. Israel said its strikes targeted Iran’s supreme leader, president and head of the armed forces. The US is planning for several days of attacks, sources tell CNN.
• Trump calls for regime change: President Donald Trump described the US military campaign as “massive and ongoing,” and warned American lives may be lost. He also called on Iranians to “take over your government.”
• Iran retaliates: Iran launched an unprecedented wave of strikes toward Israel and US targets across the Middle East. Explosions were reported in the UAE, Qatar, Dubai and Bahrain, where video shows the moment a missile struck a US Navy base.
• Global reaction: The United Arab Emirates called the conflict a “historic moment” in the Middle East, saying world leaders had failed to ensure the region’s stability. The leaders of some US allies expressed concern, while some Arab nations condemned Iran’s retaliation.
Israel has treated 89 lightly injured people as Iran and Israel trade attacks, according to Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national emergency service.
The casualties included a 16-year-old male injured by shrapnel in Kafr Qassem and an approximately 50-year-old man injured by blast impact in Ka’abiyye-Tabbash.
Video also showed damage but no injuries in a building in Petah-Tikva.
MDA teams are at “peak readiness,” the service said in a press release.
Video geolocated by CNN shows the moment a missile struck a US Navy base in Bahrain. A US official told CNN the base was targeted by an Iranian missile attack, as we’ve reported.
Several United States embassies in countries across the Middle East have called for Americans abroad to shelter-in-place. Those countries so far include Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Jordan.
We have not seen strikes like these across the Middle East before. In response to the US and Israeli strikes, Iran appears to be striking US targets in several countries at once, with blasts heard from the beaches of Dubai to the streets of Doha.
Plumes of smoke from strikes launched by the United States and Israel were seen over Tehran on Saturday, leading residents to seek shelter, and prepare for what sources have told CNN could be days of attacks.
President Donald Trump’s amassing of forces in the Middle East boxed him into action, many felt. The question now is how much?
"We can only expect escalation" after strikes on Iran, Middle East scholar tells CNN
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"We can only expect escalation" after strikes on Iran, Middle East scholar tells CNN
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Multiple explosions were heard by CNN teams in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates’ commercial hub.
Sounds of fighter jets heard over Tehran
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Sounds of fighter jets heard over Tehran
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Hours after announcing “major combat operations” in Iran that may cost American troops their lives, President Donald Trump posted an article claiming Tehran had worked to interfere in the 2020 and 2024 US presidential elections.
“Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, repeating the headline of the article on JustTheNews.com.
The article cited “meddling” efforts by Iran and the country’s plotting to try to assassinate Trump.
Four US bases in the Middle East were targeted as a response to US and Israeli strikes on Iranian cities, Iran’s state-affiliated media reported, citing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE, and the US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain were targeted by Iranian missile attacks, Fars news agency said, citing the IRGC.
Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called out the Trump administration in a statement Friday for failing to provide Congress with any “real briefings or intelligence” ahead of the strikes in Iran.
Videos geolocated by CNN show smoke rising from the direction of a US Navy base in Bahrain. The base was targeted by an Iranian missile attack a US official told CNN.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has congratulated the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and the US Army on what he called “the bold joint operation” in Iran, terming the operation “Roar of the Lion” in a post on X.
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who supported the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last year, praised the joint strikes carried out today by the US and Israel.
“President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region. God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel,” Fetterman said in a post on X.
The US Navy base in Bahrain was targeted by an Iranian missile attack, a US official said, describing it as an “active situation.”
The base is home to the Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
Israel has launched a new wave of strikes against regime targets in western Iran, the Israeli military said.
The statement comes approximately 3.5 hours after Israel and the US launched the opening salvos of strikes against Iran.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was “conducting a board strike against a number of military targets” belonging to the regime in western Iran.
Months of “close and joint planning” took place between the United States and Israel ahead of a joint campaign of strikes against Iran, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The service center of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain has been “subjected to a missile attack,” the Bahrain News Agency reports.
US President Donald Trump’s combat operation in Iran is unprecedented, according to a former Pentagon Middle East advisor.
For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran has long been the flagship issue. For years, Netanyahu has warned of Tehran’s nuclear peril and regional aggression, a campaign that culminated in Israel’s June 2025 Operation Rising Lion that was later joined by the US.
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