THE NEW YORK TIMES: New wave of Israeli airstrikes battering Tehran

The Israeli military said it launched a “large-scale wave of attacks” on Iranian government infrastructure in the early hours of Saturday morning. Shortly afterwards, Iranian state media said Israeli strikes hit the area near Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.

Two Tehran residents who live near the airport said in text messages that the airport was heavily damaged and that they could see what appeared to be burning commercial planes on the tarmac. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions about whether it had hit the airport.

The new wave of attacks in Tehran came hours after it was revealed that US officials believed Russia had provided intelligence to Iran during the US-Israeli war, including satellite images showing the locations of warships and military personnel. Russia’s intervention was the latest indication that the Middle East conflict was widening.

Russia’s information sharing could complicate relations between Washington and Moscow; However, some officials downplayed the significance of this, stating that Russia had been providing similar information to Iran for a long time and that it was unclear whether Tehran could take action on this issue.

Bombings in Iran and Lebanon continued unabated on Friday; oil and gas prices rose again; It was another sign of how the nearly week-long US-Israeli war against Iran is having economic consequences around the world.

President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender” in a social media post on Friday; It was the most uncompromising goal he had yet set for the war, and one that could herald a much longer conflict in the Middle East.

On Friday afternoon, Israeli officials said their forces had destroyed an underground bunker used by Iran’s supreme leader before he was killed last week.

The Israeli military also shelled the southern outskirts of Beirut and issued further evacuation warnings in Lebanon as it intensified attacks against Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants. The Norwegian Refugee Council estimates that around 300,000 people have fled their homes in Lebanon since the bombing began.

“We civilians are paying the price of war,” said 35-year-old Mohamed Hjoula, who took refuge on the coastline of Beirut with about 40 family members after leaving their homes.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched a wave of drones and missiles at Israel, the country’s state news agency IRNA reported. Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and the Israeli military said it had detected a missile launch from Iran, but there were no reports of major damage yet.

Meanwhile, the price of US domestic crude rose by almost US$10 per barrel in a single day, reaching close to US$91 on Friday, its highest price since 2023. The average price of unleaded gasoline in the United States has risen 11 percent since the start of the war to $3.32 per gallon. Simultaneous increases could be a serious shock to an already slowing world economy.

In other Iran war news:

• Iranian state television reported attacks on a compound in Tehran where religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lives, and Israel released a video showing a series of air strikes on almost the same area, saying its military had destroyed an underground bunker in the compound. The New York Times reviewed satellite images that showed new damage to buildings in the area.
• As Iran’s retaliatory strikes hit US allies in the Persian Gulf, Qatar’s foreign ministry said Iran attacked buildings housing members of the Qatari navy in neighboring Bahrain, but no injuries were reported. Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said it intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles launched towards a military complex south of the capital, while the United Arab Emirates said on Friday it had intercepted nine ballistic missiles and more than 100 unmanned aerial vehicles.
• The State Department is fighting accusations from diplomats and travelers who say the Trump administration is endangering U.S. citizens by launching a war without adequate plans to help Americans leave the Middle East.
• According to the Red Crescent, Iran’s main humanitarian agency, hundreds of people have been killed in Iran since the start of US-Israeli attacks; Among them are at least 175 people, mostly children, who died in the bombing of a girls’ primary school. More than 200 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

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