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At least 64 people were wounded, including seven in serious condition, after an Iranian ballistic missile struck a building in the southern Israeli city of Arad on Saturday night.

A five-year-old was among the seven seriously wounded in the attack, MDA said, adding that 15 were reported in moderate condition, and 42 lightly wounded.

Attempts were being made to rescue some feared trapped under the rubble, ZAKA paramedics on the scene said.

The United States struck Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility on Saturday, several media reports claimed, as the American and Israeli air forces continued their bombing campaign against regime targets.

Iranian media said US-Israeli forces attacked the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan Natanz enrichment complex on Saturday morning. Technical experts found that no radioactive leaks had occurred, and nearby residents were not at risk.

In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said that it did not conduct any strikes in the area and that it could not comment on American activities.

Iran has fired missiles at the joint U.K.-U.S. Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, claiming the strike shows it is capable of longer-distance attacks than previously known.

“Iran’s reckless attacks, lashing out across the region and holding hostage the Strait of Hormuz, are a threat to British interests and British allies,” a spokesperson for the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday, confirming the unsuccessful strike.

Tehran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the base in the Chagos Islands, a remote British overseas territory located more than 2,000 miles from Tehran, Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. Neither missile hit the base, it added, though neither Iran nor the U.K. specified how close the missiles came to Diego Garcia.

A building in Dimona collapsed as a result of an impact from an Iranian munition on Saturday evening after sirens sounded in southern and northern Israel.

Israeli media reported that the shrapnel potentially hit a school in the southern Israeli city.

Magen David Adom teams are treating some 20 people with mild injuries from shrapnel at various locations in Dimona. Notably, a 12-year-old child is in moderate condition. Six other injured people in light condition were treated in Soroka's emergency unit.

Iran fired eight salvos of ballistic missiles at Israel from midnight to early Friday evening, at least two of which appeared to carry cluster bomb warheads, damaging houses and lightly wounding some residents, as Israel named several Iranian officials it killed in recent days.

Fragments from one intercepted missile impacted in Jerusalem’s Old City, causing damage to a parking lot in the Jewish Quarter — around 400 meters from the Western Wall and Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount. No injuries were reported.

In the central city of Rehovot, the cluster attacks set one home ablaze, as fragments from intercepted missiles impacted in some 8-10 locations, according to police.

The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure across Tehran early Friday, targeting and killing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Brig. Gen. Ali Mohammad Naini.

An Israeli security official confirmed his elimination, saying he was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike. According to Iranian media reports, Basij intelligence chief Gen. Esmail Ahmadi, the paramilitary force’s deputy commander, was also killed in the strike.

Just before his death, Naini issued a statement dismissing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion on Thursday night that Iran could no longer enrich uranium or manufacture ballistic missiles following nearly three weeks of coordinated U.S.-Israeli operations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed members of the international media as Operation Roaring Lion entered its third week.

During his address, Netanyahu stated that he and US President Donald Trump were fully aligned on the dangers of the Iranian regime, claiming that Trump had told him that they had to make sure Iran did not have nuclear weapons.

Shrapnel from an Iranian missile intercepted by the IDF struck Israel’s largest oil refinery in Haifa Bay on Thursday, causing damage to the facility and triggering power outages in the surrounding area, the Israel Fire and Rescue Services confirmed. 

Smoke was seen billowing from the Bazan Group oil refineries following the attack. A Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson said no casualties were reported at the refinery, though the structure sustained some damage. 

Shrapnel from the missile also hit a high-tension electricity line, causing localized outages. The Israel Electric Corp. said power was quickly restored to most residential areas.

Sec. Rubio meets with Saudi Arabian FM Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 17, 2025. (photo: US State Department)

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday that his country reserves the right to act militarily after Iran launched an attack against a Saudi oil installation.

Speaking after a meeting in Riyadh which brought together the foreign ministers of 12 Arab and Muslim countries, Saudi Prince Faisal bin Farhan said Iran “doesn’t believe in talking to its neighbors. It tries to pressure its neighbors.” 

Iran’s tactics won’t work, he said. “The kingdom is not going to succumb to pressure. On the contrary, this pressure will backfire.”

US officials detected unidentified drones above an army base in ​Washington where US Secretary of State Marco ‌Rubio and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth live, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing three people ​briefed on the situation.

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According to a report by Iran International, Iran appointed former Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan on Thursday as the new secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, filling the position left vacant by the killing of Ali Larijani.

Dehghan, 68, is a senior military figure who rose through the ranks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He served as commander of IRGC forces in Lebanon and Syria in the early 1980s, as commander of the IRGC Air Force between 1990 and 1992, and as head of the Defense Ministry from 2013 to 2017 under President Hassan Rouhani. The United States imposed sanctions on him in 2019 for his alleged involvement in the October 1983 bombing of the multinational force bases in Beirut, in which 241 American soldiers were killed along with dozens of additional troops, most of them French.

Amid the war in the Middle East, China has provided Iran with offensive drones, rocket fuel-related chemicals and satellite navigation support in a “less restrained” approach to ties with the regime, according to a new fact sheet from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, an independent body that advises Congress.

After U.S. strikes on the Islamic Republic began on Feb. 28, China “allowed two state-owned Iranian vessels in a Chinese port to be loaded with sodium perchlorate, which is used in solid rocket fuel for missiles,” per the March 16 fact sheet.

“China enables Iran to mitigate global sanctions through trade and financial networks, technology transfers and dual-use trade,” per the report. “Chinese banks, front companies and intermediary firms facilitate oil transactions, the shadow fleet that transports Iranian oil, access to controlled technologies that support Iran’s missile and drone programs and money laundering that enables it all.”

The IDF has assassinated Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and the military both confirmed on Wednesday.

Before the assassination was confirmed, two sources gave The Jerusalem Post different indications on the likelihood of the success of the operation, which took place Tuesday night.

A major strike hit southern Iran on Wednesday: the oil refineries at Assaluyeh, on the shores of the Persian Gulf, were attacked, Iranian state media reported, including Tasnim News Agency (affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps). No further details on the attack were released.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the US would not be fighting Iran for “much longer,” but declined to give a clear timeline, as he disparaged NATO for not doing more to help.

Speaking at a White House lunch, Trump said he had decided to take a “little excursion” from improving the economy,” adding: “A couple of weeks. It won’t be much longer.”

It was unclear whether he meant that the excursion had lasted a couple of weeks, or that it would last for a couple of weeks longer.

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday eliminated senior Iranian security official Ali Larijani, believed to be responsible for ordering the killings of thousands of anti-regime protesters, Defense Minister Israel Katz said.

“I have just been updated by the chief of staff that Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, and the head of the Basij—Iran’s central repression apparatus—[Gholamreza] Soleimani, were eliminated last night,” Katz said in remarks on Tuesday morning.

Larijani had long been a senior figure in Tehran’s power structures and recently served as secretary of its Supreme National Security Council, which has the final say over policies, including the nuclear program.

US military planners have developed options for President Donald Trump to end the war with Iran, even as the conflict continues to expand and no clear timeline has been set, according to six people familiar with the plans cited by NBC News.

The options, described as “off-ramps,” are built into daily war planning and provide the White House with potential pathways to de-escalate the conflict if Trump chooses to do so. At the same time, military plans also include scenarios for increasing pressure on Iran, the sources said.

Sirens sounded across central Israel in the early morning hours on Tuesday as the IDF intercepted a barrage of missiles launched towards Israel from Iran.

US President Donald Trump on Monday accused allies of showing low “enthusiasm” for the coalition he proposed to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most vital route for oil tankers.

Trump also said he could wrap up the war this week but does not think he will, while defending the conflict as necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

“It’ll be wrapped up soon,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’re going to have a much safer world.”

President Trump said on Sunday the NATO alliance faces a “very bad” future if countries do not answer his call to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

“It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there,” Trump told the Financial Times.

Trump also said that Europe and China rely more on Persian Gulf oil than the U.S.

“If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO,” Trump said, according to the news outlet.

Hamas encouraged Iran to "activate all fronts" in a secret letter sent to the regime's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, KAN News reported on Sunday.

The secret letter followed a more public statement made by Hamas on Saturday, in which the terrorist group urged Iran not to target neighboring Gulf countries. 

"While the group affirms Iran's right to respond to this aggression by all available means in accordance with international norms and laws, it calls upon our brothers in Iran not to target neighboring countries," Hamas stated in its more measured public response.

IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin on Sunday evening delivered a statement detailing the objectives of the war against Iran and the ongoing military operations in the region.

“Our goal is to strike all components of the regime - together with the US military - in order to remove an existential threat to the State of Israel," Defrin said.

According to the spokesman, Iran and Hezbollah have recently attempted to intensify rocket fire toward Israel in response to growing military pressure.

“In recent days we have seen attempts by Iran and Hezbollah to increase the firing toward Israel. This is a direct response to our military pressure," he said. “Our objective is to damage all of the regime’s systems and capabilities, and we are doing this shoulder to shoulder alongside the US."

The Israel Defense Forces’ campaign in the joint war with the United States against Iran is proceeding according to plan, and at a faster pace than initially expected, military officials said on Sunday, with strikes on Iran’s defense industries expected to further ramp up alongside ongoing efforts to reduce missile fire on Israel.

Despite being apparently ahead of schedule, the military has said it is preparing for at least three more weeks of operations in Iran, as it still has thousands more targets to hit, both in Tehran and in other parts of the country.

Iran launched a ballistic missile towards central Israel at approximately 2:30 a.m. on Sunday morning,

An earlier wave on Sunday morning targeted Eilat in southern Israel, at approximately 1:30 a.m.

The missile launches caused the IDF's Home Front Command to sound sirens across central Israel, the northern West Bank, Eilat, and the Arava.

Initial reports indicate that shrapnel hit in Rishon Lezion, Ramle, and Bnei Brak, with both Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah reporting that there have been no direct casualties.

The US-Israel war with Iran entered its third week on Saturday as a missile struck a helipad inside the US Embassy compound in Baghdad and debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates, further increasing global anxiety about oil supplies.

Iran has targeted countries across the region and said it would choke off the Strait of Hormuz, a major artery for the world’s oil supply.

In response, US President Donald Trump claimed that “many countries” would send warships to the strait to defend shipping. In a post on Truth Social, Trump then said that “hopefully” China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others would send vessels. It was unclear whether other nations were already confirmed to be sending ships beyond those. He also claimed that “we have already destroyed 100 percent of Iran’s military capability.”

Two senior officials in the intelligence branch of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya emergency command were killed in a targeted Israeli Air Force strike in Tehran, the IDF confirmed on Saturday.

The military identified the officials as Abdallah Jalali-Nasab and Amir Shariat, and said the operation was carried out with precise guidance from Israeli Military Intelligence.

According to the IDF, the two men had recently been appointed as acting replacements in the intelligence division after their predecessor, Saleh Asadi, was killed in the opening phase of Operation Roaring Lion. Both were viewed as senior intelligence commanders and key figures within Iran’s intelligence community, with close ties to the upper ranks of the regime.