Explosions are heard in Iran’s capital, Tehran, as Israel says it’s launching another “wide-scale wave of strikes” against the country’s regime
It comes after the Israeli military says it detected fresh missiles being launched from Iran
In a social media post, President Donald Trump says the US is “totally destroying” the Iranian regime – and to “watch what happens” in the war on Friday
Elsewhere, a US refuelling plane has gone down over western Iraq – the US military says it was an “incident” involving two aircraft and “hostile fire or friendly fire” was not to blame
The US also says it’s easing sanctions on Russian oil stranded at sea in an attempt to curb price rises and concerns about global supplies.
In a post on Telegram the Israel Defense Forces say they have “just begun a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran”.
In the past few minutes multiple explosions have been reported in and near the city.
Meanwhile, the e BBC has been told that RAF Typhoon jets have been in action over Bahrain as part of UK’s contribution to the defence of its Gulf Arab allies.
Two jets out of the four sent to Qatar have been allocated specifically to help Bahrain intercept incoming drones.
Bahraini officials say a total of 190 incoming drones and 114 missiles have been intercepted (primarily by its own air defences) since the conflict began.
The officials say they still have an urgent need for Short Range Air Defence to counter drones. Bahrain’s airport fuel storage tanks were badly hit by an Iranian drone two nights ago.
