A new wave of airstrikes from Iran fell early Sunday morning on several points in Israel, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, hitting several buildings and causing fires.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed having attacked headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Iran, among other targets, in its latest wave of missiles directed against the Persian country on the night of Saturday to Sunday.

The head of the Jordanian Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission announced the suspension of civil air traffic for all aircraft arriving, departing and transiting through the Jordanian kingdom"until further notice."

Around 11 p.m. (local time), AFP journalists received a"high alert" message from the Home Front Command (Passive Defense) on their phones."The population is invited to go to shelters and remain there until further notice," the military said in a statement.

Iran's navy said Saturday that it intercepted a UK destroyer sailing in the Sea of Oman allegedly intending to support Israel in its military offensive.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Saturday of impending new attacks on Iran amid escalating tensions between the two countries.

Iran has appointed Brigadier General Seyyed Majid Mousavi as the new commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Air Force, following the death of his predecessor, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, in an Israeli attack, state broadcaster 'Press TV'.

Ali Shamkhani, a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting a strategic military center in the west of the country, Iranian state media reported Saturday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's direct message to the Iranian people urging them to revolt against their government was rejected by citizens.

A massive fire broke out in the South Pars gas field in southern Iran on Saturday following a suspected Israeli drone strike, Iranian state media reported. 

The sixth round of nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran, scheduled to be held this Sunday in Oman, has been officially canceled, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi announced. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday a new phase in the offensive against Iran, focused on attacking what he described as “all sites and targets of the ayatollahs’ regime.” At least 60 people, including 20 children, were killed in an Israeli attack on a residential building in the Iranian capital, state media reported Saturday. Israel expanded its offensive against Iran with bombings targeting several key infrastructure, including Tehran’s Mehrabad national airport. The attack came early Saturday and is part of a series of offensives that began early Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently stated that Iran has accumulated enough highly enriched uranium to make up to nine nuclear weapons, which he described as a direct threat to the security of his country. country.

Iran and Israel engaged in an intense exchange of missile attacks overnight that has left victims in both countries and worsened the deterioration of relations, with no signs of an immediate de-escalation. 

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi declared this Saturday that his country considers it “unjustifiable” to continue nuclear negotiations with the United States while Israel’s attacks in the region persist. 

Tehran warned this Saturday, June 14, that it will attack military bases and ships of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in the region if these countries intervene to stop the attacks that Iran has launched against Israel. 

The Israeli Army announced this Saturday that it is carrying out attacks against several sites in Iranian territory, in response to a series of missiles and drones launched by Iran after a previous Israeli air offensive.

At least Twenty-three people were killed Saturday in separate Israeli attacks in Gaza, local medical sources reported. Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow and Isfahan suffered limited damage in Friday’s Israeli attack, said Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. Israel carried out a new series of attacks on various regions of Iran on Saturday, Iranian state media reported. The provinces of East Azerbaijan, Lorestan and Kermanshah were targeted, according to the Fars news agency. The Iranian Taekwondo Federation reported Saturday that three of its members were killed in the Israeli attacks on the Iranian capital. Among the victims is Amir Ali Amini, a member of the national youth taekwondo team.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported Saturday that nine scientists and experts linked to Iran's nuclear program were killed in recent attacks.

The updated figure represents an increase from a previous report that mentioned the deaths of six specialists.

Pope Leo XIV urged"responsibility and reason" and "a commitment to building a world free of the nuclear threat" in the face of the attacks between Iran and Israel this hours, during an appeal at the jubilee audience he held this Saturday at St. Peter's Basilica.

The Civil Aviation Organization of Iran announced this Saturday the cancellation of all flights in the country until further notice, following an attack on Tehran's national airport by Israel.

Iran's representative to the United Nations, Saeed Iravani, put the number of deaths in the Israeli attacks on his country at 78 and the wounded at 320, in the first official death toll.

The Israeli military said Saturday that its air force hit Iran's air defense systems with a wave of strikes in the Tehran area overnight.

Israeli emergency services said two people were killed Saturday after a rocket hit a residential area in central Israel after Iran launched a barrage of missiles.

Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Cong, expressed his country's"condemnation" of the "violation of Iran's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity" after the airstrike launched by Israel.

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