US-Iran live: Israel launches fresh dawn strikes at Tehran and Beirut as Trump warns the ‘hardest hits’ are ‘yet to come’

A hospital in Tehran was hit by air strikes overnight.

Pictures show smashed glass and debris in the hallway of the Motahari Hospital.

The hospital was evacuated on Monday following nearby explosions, the World Health Organisation said.

The WHO spokesperson said that it is working to verify reports about alleged damage to the Motahari Hospital in Tehran and emergency medical centres in Sarab, in northwestern Iran, and another in the western province of Hamadan.

Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said in a speech to the Human Rights Council on Monday that hospitals had been subjected to “indiscriminate attacks”, without giving details

Iranian state media has reported that five members of the IRGC air force and navy were killed in attacks on the cities of Jam and Dir in the province of Bushehr.

Iran is continuing to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Perisan Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes.

Brig. Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, an adviser to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, issued the threat on Iranian state television on Monday.

‘The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Anyone who wants to pass, our devotee heroes in the IRGC navy and the army will set those ships on fire,’ he said. ‘Don’t come to this region.’

Around 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas is shipped through the Strait, which connects the oil fields of the Gulf states with the Mediterranean.

The threats to the Strait have caused oil and gas prices to soar globally.

Buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, were destroyed in Israeli air strikes early this morning.

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for dozens of locations in Lebanon, including warning residents in two southern Beirut neighbourhoods to stay away from several buildings ahead of an imminent operation.

Residents in the city were seen walking on the rubble of buildings hit by the strikes.

The terrorist group Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, launched drones at Israel overnight.

The US embassy in Kuwait has closed ‘until further notice’, due to tensions in the region.

In a post on X, the embassy said it has canceled all regular and emergency consular appointments.

The terrorist group Hezbollah has taken responsibility for launching drones at Israel overnight.

The IDF said two drones from Lebanon were intercepted.

Hezbollah claimed to have targeted an Israeli air traffic control base on Mount Meron.

It also fired rockets at an IDF base in the Golan Heights

Benjamin Netanyahu defended the decision to go to war last night.

Speaking in an interview on Fox News Channel’s ‘Hannity’, the Israeli Prime Minister said that Iran was rebuilding ‘new sites, new places’ that would make ‘their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months,’ without providing evidence.

‘You’re not going to have an endless war,’ Netanyahu said. ‘This is going to be a quick and decisive action.’

He later qualified that the conflict ‘may take some time, but it’s not going to take years’.

Netanyahu alleged that Iran had been working on new weapons sites since 12 day war in June, when Israel and the United States also launched coordinated strikes on the Islamic republic.

‘They started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers that would make their ballistic missile programs and their atomic bomb programs immune within months,’ the veteran Israeli leader said.

‘If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future.’

The Israeli Air Force has released a video showing the drone striking soldiers and military vehicles.

In a post on social media, it said soldiers ‘whose purpose was to harm our forces’ were ‘eliminated’ in the deadly strikes.

The video shows two soldiers running from a vehicle while being tracked by a drone.

It follows the soldiers as they try to make their escape before unleashing a huge blast.

The Israeli Air Force said: ‘The IDF will not allow the Iranian terrorist regime to operate defense systems in order to harm Air Force aircraft and will continue to attack attempts to arm missile launchers.’

The United States Ambassador to Israel has warned that there are ‘very limited options’ for Americans to evacuate from the country.

Mike Huckabee advised citizens to use a tourist shuttle bus to travel to the Egyptian city of Taba, or carrying on to the capital Cairo to organise a flight to the US.

He advised against US citizens trying to evacuate via Jordan.

He wrote: ‘All of our personnel from embassy are sheltering in place, but I realize you may need to get people out and back home and not continue to incur hotel costs.  I’m adding what we are recommending for now. 

‘Not sure when Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv will reopen. Hopefully soon, but even when it does, there will be VERY limited flights with priorities to those who already were ticketed by El Al. 

‘Doubtful that other airlines will fly in/out for a while. 

‘The Ministry of Tourism is operating buses to Taba. 

‘That crossing is further away but it’s open 24/7. 

‘There are some flights from Taba, but there are also options to get to Cairo and it’s operating normally except to Middle Eastern countries. 

‘To get out, it’s the best option for now. 

‘If not already enrolled in STEP program, do so as you will be emailed updated information from the embassy and State Department.’

Last night The Pentagon vented its fury at Keir Starmer on Monday for his ‘pearl-clutching’ over the US attacks on Iran.

The Prime Minister was accused of undermining the Special Relationship by banning American bombers from using British bases to launch Saturday’s assault on Tehran.

Sir Keir risked aggravating the White House further by suggesting that the attack, which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, was illegal and set to unravel.

In an outspoken intervention, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth praised Israel for its central role in the offensive – but savaged the legalistic approach taken by Britain and other European allies.

‘Israel has clear missions for which we are grateful,’ he said. ‘Capable partners are good partners. Unlike so many of our traditional partners who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, humming and hawing about the use of force.’

US President Donald Trump said the U.S. has “the capability to go far longer” than its projected four-to-five-week time frame for its military operations against Iran.

In a statement on Truth Social, the President boasted about US weapon stocks, saying wars could be fought ‘forever’ with the country’s current supplies.

He wrote: ‘As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought “forever”, and very successfully, using just these supplies.

‘At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be.

‘Much additional high grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries.

‘The United States is stocked, and ready to WIN, BIG!!!’

Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a drone early Tuesday as it kept hitting targets around the region

The attack from two drones on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused a ‘limited fire’ and minor damage, according to Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry, and the embassy urged Americans to avoid the compound.

It followed an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, and the U.S. State Department on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family in Bahrain and Jordan as a precaution.

Across Iran’s capital, explosions rang out throughout the night into the early morning, with witnesses describing hearing aircraft overhead.