Iran has unleashed a series of furious retaliatory strikes across the Middle East, launching attacks on Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Israel in a series of assaults that have left the region in flames.
Drones have struck oil facilities and airports in Iraq as US-led troops gunned down several potential attacks over the Kurdish city of Erbil amid warnings of possible attacks on hotels.
A network of Iranian-backed Shia factions, Islamic Resistance in Iraq, claimed it launched an attack on a US military base near Baghdad Airport ‘in retribution’ for the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed last Saturday.
Meanwhile, Israel and Iran have continued to exchange fire overnight, with the IDF confirming it had launched a fresh wave of attacks against ‘terror targets’ in the Dahiyeh District of Beirut, Lebanon, as the war enters its eighth day.
Iran also fired its twenty-third round of strikes, a statement from IRGC-affiliated Tasmin news agency said as the IDF reported missiles coming from the region towards Israel had been detected.
It comes as US Air Force bombers capable of hitting enemy targets with up to 34 tonnes of explosives arrived at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, suggesting Donald Trump’s mega-attack on Iran, previously dubbed the ‘big one’ may be imminent.
The US President has demanded Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’, later explaining that it could be when the Iranian’s ‘announce it’ or when ‘they can’t fight any longer because they don’t have anyone or anything to fight with’.
