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BBC Verify uses open-source intelligence, satellite imagery, fact-checking and data analysis to help report complex stories Using new satellite imagery to locate strikes and assess damage across Iran and Israel as the conflict between the two countries enters its fourth day Hello and good morning from the live page team here at BBC Verify.
Israel has launched a series of strikes against Iran, targeting the country’s nuclear program and other military infrastructure. Iran has launched its own strikes in retaliation.
The president had opposed Israeli action against Iran but came to believe that Israel had reason to act and that the U.S. would have to lend some support.
By Alexander Cornwell, Parisa Hafezi and Jeff Mason TEL AVIV/DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Iranian missiles struck Israel's Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa before dawn on Monday, destroying homes and fuelling concerns among world leaders at this week's G7 meeting that the battle between the two old enemies could lead to a broader regional conflict.
At least 24 people have been killed in Israel as Iran launched retaliatory airstrikes targeting civilian areas. A U.S. Embassy branch in Tel Aviv suffered minor damage.
Abas Aslani, Iran-based journalist and senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies describes to CNN’s Polo Sandoval on “Early Start” how people in Tehran are feeling, including the unity they’ve found amid Iran’s escalating tensions with Israel.
An Iranian ballistic missile salvo around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon failed to strike any targets in Israel, the IDF reported. Previous ballistic missile salvos on Friday and Saturday hit a number of Israelis, causing 13 deaths and wounding almost 400 people in several different Israeli cities.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that if the Israeli strikes on Iran stop, then “our responses will also stop.”