Iranian Missile hits main hospital in southern Israel

Iranian missile slams into the main hospital in southern Israel, causing extensive damage
Separate Iranian strikes also hit a high-rise apartment building in Tel Aviv and other sites in central Israel. Authorities in Israel said at least 40 people were wounded. (AP video shot by: Alon Bernstein)

Israel struck a key Iranian nuclear site on Thursday and Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital, as President Donald Trump kept the world guessing about whether the U.S. would join Israel in airstrikes seeking to destroy Tehran's nuclear facilities.

An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, causing “extensive damage” but no serious injuries, according to the medical facility. Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows and heavy black smoke.

Other missiles hit a high-rise building and several other residential buildings in at least two sites near Tel Aviv. At least 40 people were wounded in the attacks, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service.

Black smoke rose from the Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beersheba as emergency teams evacuated patients.

Two doctors told The Associated Press that the missile struck almost immediately after air raid sirens went off, causing a loud explosion that could be heard from a safe room. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.

Scenes in central Israel after Iranian missile barrage
An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, wounding people and causing “extensive damage,” according to a spokesperson. Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows and heavy black smoke.

The hospital said the main impact was on an old surgery building that had been evacuated in recent days. After the strike, the medical facility was closed to all patients except for life-threatening cases, it said. Soroka has over 1,000 beds and provides services to around 1 million residents of Israel’s south.

Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, though most have been shot down by Israel’s multi-tiered air defenses, which detect incoming fire and shoot down missiles heading toward population centers and critical infrastructure. Israeli officials acknowledge it is imperfect.

Haim Bublil, a local police commander, told reporters that several people were lightly wounded in the strike. He said there was a fire in a six-story building that was hard to access, and that rescuers were still searching various buildings and moving patients to safer areas of the hospital.

Many hospitals in Israel activated emergency plans in the past week, converting underground parking to hospital floors and move patients underground, especially those who are on ventilators or are difficult to move quickly.

Israel has no right to force ‘regime change’ in Iran – Zakharova

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Israel has no justification for trying to bring about “regime change” in Iran through its bombing campaign, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT’s Rick Sanchez on Wednesday. West Jerusalem’s backers conveniently forget about all the legal and moral principles they claim to defend the moment they’re called upon to support the Jewish State, she stated.

Israel launched a series of missile attacks against Iran on Friday, claiming that Tehran was on the brink of acquiring nuclear weapons – a goal Tehran has repeatedly denied pursuing. The Islamic Republic responded with a missile barrage of its own, and the two nations have been exchanging strikes ever since.

“What has Iran done wrong? What is it being bombed for?” Zakharova asked Sanchez in response to a question about the ongoing hostilities.

“Israel says they don’t like the regime in Iran, the political regime,” Zakharova said, stressing that this doesn’t gives West Jerusalem the right to attack another nation. “Whether you like a regime or you don’t, if it doesn’t attack you… you have no right to change that regime,” she argued.

Iran’s nuclear program, which Israel portrays as a source of major concern, is a matter for international law and diplomacy to deal with, the spokeswoman pointed out, adding that any issues linked to it should be resolved by the international community. “It’s not a matter of somebody trying to solve this issue on their own,” she added.

West Jerusalem has also failed to prove that there was any immediate threat coming from Tehran, Zakharova maintained. “We’ve heard multiple statements from Israel that they have proof that Iran is one step away from creating weapons of mass destruction. Why can’t they just show the documents?” she said, expressing doubts about whether any such evidence exists.

Yet, the lack of justification for Israel’s actions apparently does not concern Western nations, the spokeswoman said.

Blasts rock Tehran, Tel Aviv; Iran warns Israel of ‘devastating’ attacks

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Blasts rock Tehran and air raid sirens go off in Tel Aviv as Iran says it is preparing for what it calls the largest and most intense missile attack in history on Israeli soil, after a strike on Iranian state television.

Eight people were killed by Iranian ballistic missiles that slammed into Israeli cities in at least five locations early Monday, and nearly 300 others were injured, as the conflict entered a fourth day.

Four people were killed in Petah Tikva, three in Haifa, and another person in Bnei Brak.

The Health Ministry said 287 people were hospitalised nationwide as a result of the barrage of Iranian missiles. One person was listed in serious condition, and 14 were moderately injured, including two at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikva. The remainder were lightly injured or suffered acute shock.

Two missiles also hit Tel Aviv, causing significant damage to a number of buildings, as well as some injuries.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirmed in a post to X that the embassy branch in the coastal city was slightly damaged from an impact, but there were no injuries to staff. He said the American embassies and consulates remain closed, with a shelter-in-place order still in effect. The US embassy itself is located in Jerusalem.

Iranian missile barrages have repeatedly targeted the densely populated Tel Aviv metro area and surrounding cities since fighting began on Friday, as well as the Haifa area.

The Israel Defense Forces began airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure in the early hours of Friday, acting to fight what it says is an immediate and existential threat to Israel from the Iranian nuclear and missile programs.

The campaign, which also included Mossad sabotage operations within Iran, has received support from many Western nations, which have affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself.

Shortly after midnight in the early hours of Monday, the IDF’s Home Front Command alerted the Israeli public to stay close to bomb shelters in the expectation of a missile attack.

Notifications were sent via a cellphone app that gives an early alert of possible attacks, which is generally followed by a second warning that is minutes ahead of sirens, at which point there is around 90 seconds to find shelter.

People evacuate after a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

350 missiles fired since Friday

Iran has launched some 350 ballistic missiles at Israel since Friday, the vast majority of which were intercepted, according to IDF statistics released Monday.

In all, 24 people have been killed in Iran’s ballistic missile attacks since Friday.

That number is expected to rise, as one person is still missing and presumed dead in a missile strike on a building in Bat Yam over the weekend.

Iran’s barrages consist of some 30–60 missiles each, according to the IDF.

Military officials said that Tehran has sought to fire more — hundreds at a time — but Israeli Air Force strikes on ballistic missile launchers in Iran are disrupting the attacks.

In each barrage, 5–10 percent of the missiles “leak” through and impact Israel, officials said. This includes missiles that the IDF says it does not try to shoot down “according to protocol,” allowing them to strike open areas without causing damage to any critical infrastructure, as well as missiles it failed to intercept which hit urban areas and caused casualties and damage.

The military has routinely emphasised that, as good as Israel’s multi-layered air defences are, they are not hermetic. It has urged Israelis to heed Home Front Command instructions to take shelter in safe rooms and bomb shelters when incoming missile warnings are received.

Most of Iran’s ballistic missile fire has been aimed at Tel Aviv and Haifa — which are densely populated — and to a lesser degree, the Beersheba area. This means that the few missiles that are not intercepted are likely to cause harm.

Petah Tikva

Home Front Command official Udi Elbaz told the press that an Iranian missile hit a 20-storey building in Petah Tikva, badly damaging its fourth and fifth floors.

“It is important for me to emphasise that in additional buildings we searched, most of the people who were in a protected space were not injured,” he told reporters.

Responders inspect a damaged building following a strike by an Iranian missile in Petah Tikva on June 16, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

The IDF later clarified that the missile directly hit a bombproof room, which is an area built into modern Israeli buildings that has thicker walls and a blast door to protect against such attacks. Two people who were in one of the safe rooms were killed. The two other fatalities at that location were not in a protected space despite the sirens.

Haifa

Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav confirmed that three people were killed in a barrage targeting the northern city.

Yahav told Channel 12 news the three were working at a facility “that’s very important to us in the area, which we would be happy if it closed and left.”

It was later permitted for publication that the missile hit the Bazan oil refinery complex.

Rescuers had attempted for hours to reach the three missing people, who were buried under rubble during the attack on the northern city. A fire also broke out at the location, complicating rescue operations.

An Iranian missile attack a night earlier on Haifa caused “localised damage” at the oil facility.

Yahav said several homes and other buildings in the city suffered extensive damage, but only four people were hospitalised with light injuries.

Israel Police said officers were sent to clear international media journalists who have been broadcasting live missile impacts in the Haifa area.

“Coastal District police vehicles set out to conduct a search and handle the incident,” a spokesperson said.

Haifa is home to a number of sensitive facilities, including the oil refinery, a major port, and a naval base.

Bnei Brak

In Bnei Brak, a town east of Tel Aviv, the body of a man in his 80s was pulled out of a building that was damaged by a missile, authorities said on Monday.

The impact caused significant damage to a number of other buildings in the area.

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Bnei Brak, June 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

At impact sites, rescuers helped evacuate hundreds of people from destroyed and damaged residential buildings.

The Magen David Adom emergency service reported that at one of the locations, which caused major damage to residential buildings along a street, a four-day-old baby was found in a destroyed building, but suffering no injuries.

Medics kept the child safe in an ambulance until his mother was extracted from a building about an hour later.

Rescuers work near a damaged building following a strike by an Iranian missile in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv, on June 16, 2025. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

In addition to the missiles, eight drones launched at Israel from Iran were intercepted by Israeli Navy missile boats overnight, the IDF said, adding that it had used a new air defence system for the first time.

According to the military, it intercepted some of the drones using LRAD interceptor missiles, part of the BARAK MX air defence system, which were deployed to the Navy’s Sa’ar 6-class corvettes.

Since the start of the conflict on Friday, the IDF said, the Navy has intercepted some 25 drones heading to Israel, mostly from Iran.

The IAF has shot down around 100 other drones with fighter jets and helicopters.

Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened that Tehran’s residents would suffer in retaliation for the Iranian missile strikes that have caused widespread damage to Israeli residential areas.

“The arrogant dictator of Tehran has become a scared murderer who fires at Israel’s civilian home front in order to deter the IDF from continuing to carry out attacks that are destroying his capabilities,” Katz said in a statement, apparently referring to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

“The residents of Tehran will pay the price, and soon,” he vowed, in what appeared to be a threat to target Iranian civilians in kind.

He later clarified that “there is no intention to physically harm the residents of Tehran, as the murderous dictator does to the citizens of Israel.”

“The residents of Tehran will be forced to bear the cost of the dictatorship and evacuate their homes from areas where it will be necessary to strike regime targets and security infrastructure in Tehran,” he said.

Iran launches new attacks on Israel - blasts in Tel Aviv, Haifa

Iran launched strikes against each other for a third day on Sunday, with both countries vowing to continue responding to attacks.

On Sunday evening, there were explosions in the sky above Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as Israel's defence system shot down missiles fired from Iran.

In overnight strikes on Saturday, ten people, including two children, were killed and more than 100 injured in Israel, authorities said.

In Haifa, an oil refinery was damaged, the firm operating it said. Israel’s main international airport and airspace was closed for a third day.

Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv said that Iranian missiles had hit a residential building there, charring concrete walls, blowing out windows and heavily damaging multiple apartments.

The Israeli Magen David Adom emergency service reported that two women and one man — all in their 70s — were killed in the wave of missile attacks that struck four sites in central Israel. That brought the total death toll in Israel to at least 17 since Iran began launching missiles at the country in response to Israel’s sweeping attacks on its military and nuclear infrastructure last Friday.

Following a spate of missile strikes from Iran into Israel on Monday morning, local time, Israeli Emergency Services said medical teams have confirmed three people were killed and over 70 others were injured. Two women and one man, all approximately 70 years old, were killed, officials said. A 30-year-old woman is in serious condition and five others are in moderate condition. The remaining injuries were mild, officials said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that if Israeli strikes on Iran stop, “our responses will also stop.” But after a day of intensive Israeli aerial attacks that extended targets beyond military installations to hit oil refineries and government buildings, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard struck a hard line, vowing that further rounds of strikes would be “more forceful, severe, precise and destructive than previous ones.”

The day before Israel’s military struck dozens of sites across Iran, expanding its targets beyond military installations to hit oil refineries and government buildings.

Iran on Sunday said Israel had killed the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence chief and pummeled population centers in intensive aerial attacks that raised the death toll from Israel’s campaign to 224 people since Friday.

Health authorities also reported that 1,277 were wounded in Iran, without distinguishing between military officials and civilians. Rights groups putting together their own casualty reports in the country have suggested that the Iranian government’s death toll is a significant undercount.

Iran strikes Israel with new missile, drone attack

Iran’s latest wave of attacks on Israel took out Tehran’s main gas depot and its central oil refinery in separate parts of the capital, engulfing its sky in smoke and flame early Sunday.

The Shahran fuel and gasoline depot, which has at least 11 storage tanks, was hit and set afire during the Israeli attack that began on Saturday night, Iran’s oil ministry said in a statement. Shahran is in an affluent neighborhood of luxury high rises.

A second wave of ballistic missiles has been launched from Iran toward Israel, according to a statement from the Israeli military.

Three women were killed and 20 others injured in a rocket strike on a residential building in the Galilee, a region in northern Israel, late Saturday night, Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency service, said in a statement. Paramedics pulled two women from the rubble with no signs of life and evacuated a third in critical condition, who later died at the hospital. Most of the injured were treated for minor wounds or anxiety and taken to hospitals across the north.

Israeli Police said it received reports of a fallen explosive device in a community in the Northern District.

Initial reports indicated that there were several casualties and damage at the scene.

Iranian state TV said more than 100 missiles were launched in the second wave of their operation "True Promise 3".

Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer has announced RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel.

The prime minister said further military assets are being deployed to provide “contingency support” across the region amid escalating hostilities between the two long-time foes.

Earlier on Saturday, Iran's state TV said that "heavy and destructive" attacks by Iran against Israel were expected within the coming hours, as the Israeli military continues to strike several targets across Iran.

In an official statement, the force added that facilities used for fighter jet fuel production were also among the targets.

The statement included a warning to Israel, saying that if hostilities continued, Iran’s response “will become heavier and more extensive.”

Iran said 78 people were killed on the first day of Israel’s campaign, and dozens more – including 29 children – on the second day when a missile hit a residential tower in Tehran.

In Israel, a woman in her 20s was killed and 13 others injured when a missile struck a home in the north.

Tehran has suspended diplomatic engagement, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi saying talks could not continue while under assault.

Energy fears rise as gas field hit, Strait of Hormuz under review

Iran halted some production at the South Pars gas field following an Israeli strike that triggered a fire.

Iranian General Esmail Kosari said Tehran is reviewing whether to close the Strait of Hormuz – a key route for global oil shipments.

Human rights group B’Tselem criticised Israel’s leadership for choosing war over diplomacy. Meanwhile, fears persist that the conflict could engulf the wider region if Iran’s allies retaliate or if international powers intervene.

Woman dead after strikes on Northern Israel. A woman in her 20s has died after Irani missile strikes on Northern Israel.

Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) said the woman, who was pulled from the rubble, was in a two-storey house in Western Galilee. It added 14 people were injured from the strikes. Seven people are being taken to hospital, MDA said. One person was in critical condition and the others had "degrees of injury".

Iran fires ballistic missile barrage at Israel

An explosion is seen during a missile attack in Tel Aviv on Friday. (Tomer Neuberg/The Associated Press)

Iran launched retaliatory airstrikes at Israel on Friday night, with explosions heard in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, the country's two largest cities, following Israel's biggest-ever military strike against its longstanding enemy.

Iran has launched retaliatory strikes against Israel late on Friday, firing “hundreds” of ballistic missiles at the country, Iranian state media has reported. Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the attacks.

The IRGC has confirmed it has begun retaliatory strikes against Israel. The military action is dubbed Operation True Promise III, a name that seemingly refers to strikes previously launched by Tehran in response to Israel’s actions.

“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps… has executed its decisive and precise response against tens of targets, military centers and airbases of the usurping Zionist regime in the occupied territories,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iranian state media.

Numerous videos circulating online show multiple incoming missiles in the skies over Israel. The city of Tel Aviv appears to be one of the prime targets for the Iranian strikes, footage suggests. Videos purport to show Israeli anti-aircraft systems deployed inside the city firing at the incoming projectiles. Some of the Iranian missiles appear to make it through and strike in the immediate vicinity of the Israeli anti-aircraft positions.

Several buildings were struck in the attack including an apartment block in a residential neighbourhood in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv. Another building in central Tel Aviv was also struck, causing significant damage to multiple floors.

Iran retaliated late Friday by unleashing scores of ballistic missiles on Israel, where explosions flared in the skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook the buildings below.

In a second round of attacks early Saturday, sirens and a round of explosions, possibly from Israeli interceptors, could be heard booming in the sky over Jerusalem. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by the earlier wave of missiles, to head to shelter.

In a second round of attacks, sirens and explosions, possibly from Israeli interceptors, could be heard booming in the sky over Jerusalem early Saturday. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by the earlier wave of missiles, to head to shelter.

Hours later, an Iranian missile struck near homes in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, wounding 13 people, according to Israel’s paramedic service Magen David Adom.

One person was in critical condition, while another was in severe condition, according to the paramedic service. Eli Bin, director of the Magen David Adom, told Israel’s Channel 12 that several people were still trapped.

World reacts to Israeli strike on Iran over nuclear activity

Nobonyad Square following Israeli airstrikes, Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025.
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Russia ‘strongly condemns’ Israel’s attack on Iran

Russia has strongly condemned Israel’s airstrikes on Iran, warning that the operation risks triggering a dangerous escalation across the Middle East. In a statement on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the attack violated both the UN Charter and international law.

The strikes, carried out early Friday by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), reportedly targeted Iranian military and nuclear sites. Iranian media outlets said the attack killed several senior officials, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Hossein Salami and Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff Gholam Ali Rashid. At least six nuclear scientists were also reported among the dead.

“We strongly condemn the violent action of the State of Israel,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “Unprovoked military strikes against a sovereign UN member state, its citizens, sleeping peaceful cities, and nuclear energy infrastructure facilities are categorically unacceptable.”

The ministry noted that the timing of the attacks – amid a session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors and ahead of another round of nuclear talks – “adds particular cynicism” to the situation.

“The hard-won multilateral efforts to reduce confrontation and find solutions that eliminate any suspicions and prejudices regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy have been undermined and set back,” it added, accusing Israel of making “a conscious choice to further escalate tensions” with the strikes.

“There have been repeated warnings about the danger of military actions that threaten stability and security in the region. Responsibility for all the consequences of this provocation will fall on the Israeli leadership,” the ministry stated.

AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER:

"The Zionist regime has committed a crime in our dear country today at dawn with its satanic, bloodstained hands. "That regime should anticipate a severe punishment. By God’s grace, the powerful arm of the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces won’t let them go unpunished." "With this crime, the Zionist regime has prepared for itself a bitter, painful fate, which it will definitely see."

LIN JIAN, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON:

"China opposes the violation of Iran's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, opposes the intensification of contradictions, the expansion of conflicts, and the sudden rise in temperature of the regional situation.

"China calls on all parties concerned to do more things that promote regional peace and stability and avoid further escalation of the tense situation. China is willing to play a constructive role in easing the situation."

SPOKESPERSON FOR U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES:

"The Secretary-General condemns any military escalation in the Middle East. He is particularly concerned by Israeli attacks on nuclear installations in Iran while talks between Iran and the United States on the status of Iran's nuclear programme are underway.

"The Secretary-General asks both sides to show maximum restraint, avoiding at all costs a descent into deeper conflict, a situation that the region can hardly afford."

MARK RUTTE, NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL:

"This was a unilateral action by Israel. So I think it is crucial for many allies, including the United States, to work as we speak to de-escalate."

RAFAEL GROSSI, HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY:

"I call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid further escalation. I reiterate that any military action that jeopardises the safety and security of nuclear facilities risks grave consequences for the people of Iran, the region, and beyond.

"I have indicated to the respective authorities my readiness to travel at the earliest to assess the situation and ensure safety, security and non-proliferation in Iran."

FRIEDRICH MERZ, GERMAN CHANCELLOR

"We call on both sides to refrain from steps that could lead to further escalation and destabilise the entire region."

JEAN-NOEL BARROT, FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER:

"We call on all parties to exercise restraint and avoid any escalation that could compromise regional stability.

"We have repeatedly expressed our serious concerns regarding Iran's nuclear programme, notably in the resolution recently adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). We reaffirm Israel's right to defend itself against any attack."

MARCO RUBIO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE:

"Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.

TURKEY

Said Israel's provocation shows it "does not want issues to be resolved through diplomatic means" and urged it to halt "aggressive actions that could lead to greater conflicts."

KEIR STARMER, UK PRIME MINISTER:

"Escalation serves no one in the region. Stability in the Middle East must be the priority and we are engaging partners to de-escalate. Now is the time for restraint, calm and a return to diplomacy."

PENNY WONG, AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER:

"This risks further destabilising a region that is already volatile. We call on all parties to refrain from actions and rhetoric that will further exacerbate tensions.

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"We all understand the threat of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program represents a threat to international peace and security, and we urge the parties to prioritize dialogue and diplomacy."

TAKESHI IWAYA, JAPAN FOREIGN MINISTER:

"Amid ongoing diplomatic efforts, including talks between the United States and Iran, to achieve a peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue, the use of military force is deeply regrettable.

"The government strongly condemns this action, which escalates the situation."

JAN LIPAVSKY, CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER:

"Iran has long failed to meet its obligations to the international community, and is building up its nuclear programme. But at the same time, it has rhetoric that is aimed at destroying the state in Israel. We've seen that twice it has conducted a large-scale state ballistic and drone attack in the last year-and-a-half against Israel along with Hamas and Hezbollah, and it seeks to destroy the state of Israel.

"So I have a great deal of understanding for... military action to deter the production of a nuclear bomb in the region."

SAUDI ARABIA:

"Saudi Arabia expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the blatant Israeli aggressions against the brotherly Islamic Republic of Iran, which undermine its sovereignty and security and constitute a clear violation of international laws and norms."

"Let me be clear: Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel."