The Shahran oil depot in Tehran has been targeted by an Israeli attack, Iran said, but added that the situation is under control. A fire broke out after an Israeli attack on an oil refinery near the capital, while Israeli strikes also targeted Iran's defense ministry building, causing minor damage, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, quoted by the ag. Reuters.
In Israel, the latest wave of Iranian attacks began shortly after 11:00 p.m. on Saturday (20:00 GMT), when air raid sirens wailed in Jerusalem and Haifa, sending an estimated one million people into bomb shelters.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said they had attacked the central Israeli city of Jaffa with several ballistic missiles in the past 24 hours, the first time an Iranian ally had joined the fray.
Israel's emergency services said at least seven people had been killed overnight, including a 10-year-old boy, a young girl and a woman in her 20s, and more than 140 were wounded in multiple attacks.
Israeli media reported that at least 35 people were missing after a strike in Bat Yam, a city south of Tel Aviv. A spokesman for emergency services said a rocket hit an eight-story building there and although many people were rescued, there were casualties.
It is unclear how many buildings were hit overnight.
At least 10 people in Israel have been killed and more than 300 others injured since Iran launched its retaliatory attacks on Friday.
A round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran that was due to take place in Oman on Sunday has been cancelled, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi saying discussions could not take place while Iran was being subjected to “barbaric” Israeli attacks.
Attack on gas fields
In the first apparent attack on Iran's energy infrastructure, the Tasnim news agency reported that Iran had partially halted production at South Pars, the world's largest gas field, after an Israeli strike caused a fire.
The South Pars field, located in Iran's southern Bushehr province, is the source of most of the gas produced in Iran.
Fears of a potential disruption to oil exports from the region had already sent oil prices up 9% on Friday, even though Israel spared Iranian oil and gas on the first day of its attacks.
Iranian General Esmail Kosari said on Saturday that Tehran was considering whether to close the Strait of Hormuz, which controls access to the Persian Gulf for tankers.
After Israel said its operation could last weeks, and Netanyahu called on the Iranian people to rise up against their Islamic clerics, fears are growing of a regional conflagration that would draw in outside powers.
Tehran has warned Israel's allies that their military bases in the region will also come under fire if they help shoot down Iranian missiles.
However, the 20-month war in Gaza and the conflict in Lebanon last year have destroyed Tehran's most powerful regional proxies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, reducing its ability to retaliate.
Israel views Iran's nuclear program as an existential threat and has said the bombings were designed to prevent the final steps toward producing nuclear weapons.
Tehran insists the program is entirely civilian and that it is not seeking an atomic bomb. However, the UN nuclear watchdog said this week that Iran is violating its obligations under the global nuclear non-proliferation treaty.