Guerre au Moyen-Orient: les derniers développements
Four oil depots and a logistics site were struck overnight by the United States and Israel in Tehran and its surroundings, an executive of the national distribution company Keramat Veyskarami said Sunday, killing four people, including two tanker truck drivers.
This is the first reported attack against Iranian oil infrastructure.
"Today, Iran will be hit very hard!" Donald Trump warned on Saturday, referring to "areas and groups of people that had never before been considered targets."
A seawater desalination plant was damaged Sunday by an Iranian drone attack, authorities in the small Gulf archipelago said in a statement.
According to Bahrain's Interior Ministry, three people were also "injured and material damage was caused to a university building in the Muharraq area after missile fragments fell following Iran's blatant aggression".
The Israeli army announced that it launched a wave of strikes targeting military sites "across Iran" on Sunday morning, according to a statement.
"The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran are capable of continuing at least six months of intense warfare at the current pace of operations," said Revolutionary Guard spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini, as quoted by the Fars news agency.
The Revolutionary Guards have claimed to have already struck more than 200 American and Israeli targets in the region since the start of the conflict.
An Israeli strike against a beachfront hotel in the center of Beirut left at least four dead and ten wounded, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced Sunday, with Israel claiming to have targeted leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and carried out a "precision strike".
In addition to the four deaths at the Beirut hotel, 12 people were killed in Israeli strikes overnight, the official news agency ANI reported.
The attack in Beirut targeted the Ramada hotel in the Raouche district, a tourist area besieged by people displaced by the war and so far spared from Israeli strikes targeting the pro-Iranian Shiite movement Hezbollah.
On Sunday morning, bombings continued in the southern suburbs of Beirut - a stronghold of the pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah, according to images from AFPTV.
Gulf countries reported further missile and drone attacks overnight Sunday, particularly Kuwait, which was still being targeted Sunday morning, after denouncing the targeting of fuel tanks at its international airport.
Attacks were also reported by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose authorities announced on Saturday the death of one person after debris fell in Dubai.
"We have repeatedly stated that we are brothers with neighboring countries and that we wish to maintain good relations with them," Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said in a message on national television Sunday.
"However, if the enemy attempts to use the territory of a country to launch an aggression against our territory, we will be forced to retaliate," he warned.
Air raid sirens sounded Sunday morning in northern and southern Israel, warning of incoming missiles from Iran, but no damage or casualties were reported. Air defenses responded to at least four waves of missiles launched from Iran, according to military statements released within five hours.
"Faced with a Middle East engulfed in the flames of war, what I want to say is that this is a war that should never have taken place, and a war that brings no benefit to either side," said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
"The world cannot return to the law of the jungle," he added.
During a press briefing aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump said he "did not want" Iranian Kurdish militias to launch an offensive against the government in Tehran, contrary to the view expressed two days earlier.
"I don't want the Kurds to go there. We don't intend for the Kurds to go there. (...) We don't want to make this war more complicated than it already is."
"We have a methodical plan, with many surprises, to eradicate the Iranian regime and enable change," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address.
With the United States firmly in "near-total control of the airspace over Tehran", Israel will continue to strike Iran with "all" its "force", it warns.
"We oppose all scenarios aimed at triggering a civil war in Iran, by exploiting ethnic or religious divisions," Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a press conference in Istanbul, calling it an "extremely dangerous" game, as he said several American media outlets reported that Washington was considering arming Kurdish guerrillas to infiltrate Iran.
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