Prime Minister Netanyahu claims Israel now controls Tehran's airspace and is close to neutralising Iran’s nuclear and missile threats. Following Israel's surprise strike, Iran launched over 300 missiles in retaliation. Israel has imposed wartime media restrictions on sensitive operations
Threat to global shipping "The Houthi rebels" started attacking military and commercial ships on one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors shortly after the war in Gaza began between Hamas and Israel in October 2023.
Israel holds high-level meet of security officials, mulls preemptive strike on Iran if it gets a full-proof intelligence report on possibility of attack
Khamenei gave the order at an emergency meeting of Iran's Supreme National Security Council shortly after Iran announced that the Hamas leader was killed