Iran threatened the U.S. after striking a desalination plant in the pro-American country of Bahrain, “stoking fears of attacks on civilian sites. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed to expand its attacks on American targets across the region in the face of intense U.S. and Israeli airstrikes,” reports Yahoo News:
Iran’s president vowed to expand the country’s attacks on American targets across the region in the face of intense U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
A late-night Israeli strike on an oil facility engulfed parts of Tehran in smoke on Sunday, while Israel renewed attacks in Lebanon. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press ahead with the 9-day-old campaign, which has rippled across the region and appears to have no end in sight.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian threatened Sunday to step up attacks on American targets across the Middle East, backtracking from conciliatory comments a day earlier, in which he apologized for attacks on his Gulf neighbors’ soil. Those were quickly contradicted by Iranian hard-liners.
In Lebanon, intensifying Israeli strikes pushed the death toll higher as hundreds of thousands were displaced and Israel targeted the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
In Israel, the military said two soldiers were killed in fighting in southern Lebanon — the first Israeli military fatalities since the start of the war last week. Three people were also injured in Israel in a Sunday afternoon strike.
The war, which Israel and the United States launched with airstrikes on Feb. 28, has so far killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, at least 397 in Lebanon and at least 11 in Israel, according to officials. Six U.S. troops have also been killed.
