Plumes of smoke, burning planes: Iran’s Mehrabad airport caught fire due to Israeli air strike – see

Israeli strikes hit Tehran on Saturday, with explosions reported at the capital’s Mehrabad International Airport and other parts of the city as the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States escalates.Footage posted on social media shows the attacks and a large fire at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, with witnesses reporting burning airplanes after the explosion at one of the Iranian capital’s main commercial airports.Israel said it had launched “wide-scale” strikes on targets in Tehran, while Iranian state media reported an explosion in the western part of the city. “The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) have launched large-scale attacks on government targets in the Iranian capital,” an Israeli military statement said.Follow live updates of the US-Israel-Iran warWitnesses described the Israeli air strikes as particularly intense, saying that the explosions shook houses and sent up smoke. Others reported explosions around the Iranian city of Kermanshah, which is home to several missile bases. The witnesses spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal, the AP reported.The Israeli military earlier said it had detected another round of Iranian missile attacks headed toward Israel. A series of explosions were heard in Tel Aviv following the launch.Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom, said it had received no reports of casualties following the barrage. The army later issued a statement saying people were free to leave their shelters “in all areas of the country”.As Israeli warplanes bombed Tehran and Beirut, Iran launched more retaliatory attacks against Israel and the Gulf countries on the seventh day of the war. Several loud sounds resembling thunder were heard in Jerusalem shortly after midnight local time as Israel said it was acting to intercept missiles launched from Iran.US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said in a television interview that “the greatest bombing campaign” of the war was still to come.The United States and Israel have launched repeated attacks on Iran targeting its military capabilities, leadership and nuclear program, as the goals and timeline of the war continue to shift.The latest developments come as tensions escalated in West Asia following a joint US-Israeli military strike on Iranian territory on February 28, which killed its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior figures.In retaliation, Iran launched a wave of drone and missile attacks on several Arab countries.

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