US attacks on Iran: what we know so far

US President Donald Trump announced US forces had attacked Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, ramping up the biggest Mideast flare-up among major powers in over twenty years.

Trump strikes

  • Trump announced US attacks successfully attacked three main nuclear sites in Iran.
  • “BOMBS dropped on all, mainly Fordow”, Trump announced.
  • Trump said 6 huge MOAB-type bombs and missiles fired from submarines were used in the attacks, he was quoted by Fox News Host Sean Hannity.

Tension mounted ahead of attacks

  • Trump had said earlier in the day that still prefers to solve the nuclear issue with Iran through diplomacy, according to US secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
  • Iran and the United States kept up their communication over the weekend, NBC news reported.
  • Dozens of US military aircraft have been tracked flying toward the Middle East in recent days.

Israel kept military campaign on Iran, Plot foiled in Cyprus

  • The nine-day Israeli military campaign has killed 865 people and wounded over 3,000, human rights group HRANA said.
  • A new wave of Israeli airstrikes targeted cities across Iran—from Bandar Abbas, Ahvaz, and Marvdasht in the south to Tabriz, Salmas and Babol in the north.
  • The Israeli military says its air force has struck three F-14 fighter jets belonging to the Iranian Armed Forces in central Iran.
  • Iran is targeting Israeli civilians both inside the country and abroad, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said, after Cypriot authorities foiled a suspected Iranian-linked plot in Limassol.
  • Hezbollah's late secretary general Hassan Nasrallah's longtime bodyguard Abu Ali al-Khalil was killed in an airstrike in Tehran.
  • A video sent to Iran International shows significant damage to the cyber police (FATA) headquarters in Tehran, amid ongoing Israeli strikes on Iranian targets.
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has named three senior clerics as possible successors in case he is killed in the war with Israel, names not revealed, his son Mojtaba is not among them.

Planned executions, German national arrested

  • Iran must halt planned executions, Amnesty International warned of a surge in politically motivated death sentences following the escalation of hostilities with Israel.
  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested a German national, Marek Kaufmann, for alleged spying near restricted military and nuclear sites in Markazi province.
  • Iran has denied that it reduced missile launches because of depleted stockpiles. Says the change reflects a new strategy focused on quality over quantity.
  • Five members of Revolutionary Guards were killed in an Israeli strike on targets in Khorramabad, a city in the west of Iran.
  • Saeed Izadi, commander of the Palestine Corps within Iran’s Quds Force, was killed in a strike on an apartment in Qom.