The Israeli military says it has launched another series of strikes across the Iranian capital Tehran.

"The IDF has begun an additional wave of strikes targeting military infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime across Tehran," the Israel Defense Forces says in a statement.

It doesn't offer any further information about a specific location, but says further details will follow.

News agency AFP reports that its journalists witnessed a powerful explosion in the capital on Wednesday night.

Earlier on, the Israeli military announced its air force had completed a "wide-scale strike" on an eastern Tehran compound containing command centres and internal security personnel.

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Spain's Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares says his government's position on the war "has not changed" after the White House said Spain has agreed to cooperate with the US military.

Yesterday, President Trump threatened to halt all trade with Spain after the country barred the US from using its military bases as part of its operation in Iran.

Albares tells Spanish radio channel Cadena SER: "The Spanish government's position on the war in the Middle East, the bombing of Iran and the use of our bases has not changed at all."

He adds: “Our position of ‘no to war’ remains clear and unequivocal."

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French President Emmanuel Macron says he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun and its Prime Minister Nawaf Salam today to discuss the "highly concerning" situation in Lebanon.

Hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah continue to escalate in Lebanon - with reports that the Israeli military entered several Lebanese villages near the UN-demarcated boundary between Lebanon and Israel.

Hezbollah has also launched rockets and drones at Israel, in response to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

In a post on social media, Macron says: "I reaffirmed the need for Hezbollah to immediately cease its attacks against Israel and beyond."

He adds that "similarly, I called on the Israeli Prime Minister to preserve Lebanon’s territorial integrity and to refrain from a ground offensive."

He says France will continue to support the Lebanese armed forces to end the threat posed by Hezbollah, and is taking steps to support displaced Lebanese civilians.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

Iran’s ferocious initial response to the assault by Israel and the United States raised questions.

Could America’s allies continue to defend themselves? Could their expensive air defences cope with wave after wave of cheap drones?

Those fears seem to have eased.

The Americans say the number of ballistic missiles fired by Iran has dropped 86% since Saturday, while the number of drones is down by 73%.

The United States and Israel have destroyed much of Iran’s capability, although Western officials acknowledge it’s possible the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps may be holding some weapons back in order to keep fighting longer.

Having achieved supremacy in the air, Israeli and American jets are now free to fly, uncontested, over Iranian territory.

This means they no longer need to rely on so-called “stand-off” weapons - hugely expensive missiles, fired from a safe distance - but can now start to draw on their vast stocks of much cheaper GPS-guided bombs.

Sakshi Venkatraman
US reporter

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke almost entirely about Iran during her 45-minute press briefing just now.

Here's what she said:

• Leavitt repeated many of the lines we've heard from others in the administration - that the objectives of the US operation in Iran is to remove their nuclear ambitions and destroy their navy
• Iran's leaders are "paying in blood", she said, for what she calls their crimes against the US
• Asked about what "imminent threat" required the US to attack Iran, Leavitt largely didn't answer the question, but said Trump's "feeling based on fact" was that Iran posed a threat to the US
• She said the Iranian regime "lied and delayed" during negotiations before the initial US-Israeli attack in order to build up their ballistic weapons supply
• And on who could be Ayatollah Khamenei's successor as supreme leader, Leavitt said we will have to "wait and see"

The BBC's Washington correspondent Daniel Bush asks about what Iranian authorities have said was a US-Israeli strike on a school in southern Iran - in which they say more than 160 people were killed.

BBC News has not been able to independently verify the Iranian authorities' death toll.

"Can you say that there is any evidence that it was not a US strike, and is there any assessment about Israel's potential (or) likely role - if at all?" he asks.

Leavitt replies that the Department of Defense is "investigating this matter", but reiterates previous comments from US officials that: "The United States armed forces do not target civilians."

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The White House press secretary is asked about the "imminent threat" against the US that required the country to attack Iran.

The reporter also mentions UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's comments earlier, that there was not a "viable, thought-through plan".

"I completely reject the premise of your question," Leavitt responds. "President Trump does not make decisions in a vacuum."

She continues by saying "the president's feeling based on fact" was that Iran posed a threat to the US.

"That has obviously proved to be the right decision and an effective one at that," she says.

She doesn't answer the question about Starmer.

Karoline Leavitt is asked about the aims of the US-Israel war with Iran, and whether regime change is the ultimate goal.

In response, the press secretary restates the goals she outlined at the start of the briefing. But she adds that the US is not opposed to Iranians themselves overthrowing the Iranian government.

As a reminder you can watch live the White House press briefing at the top of the page.

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The press secretary says Spain has now agreed to cooperate with the US military.

Yesterday Trump threatened to halt all trade with Spain, after the country barred the US from using its military bases as part of its operation in Iran.

Now, Leavitt says, Spain has heard Trump's message "loud and clear". She adds that the US president expects all European allies to cooperate with the operation.

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Asked if Trump believes the public supports the war with Iran, Leavitt says: "I think he does."

She continues, saying: "This is a rogue terrorist regime that has been threatening the United States, our allies, and our people for 47 years."

She adds that the US president has been "remarkably consistent" on the issue that Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon and that Trump had determined that "peace was not a pursuable path" with Iran.

Moving on to questions from reporters, and Leavitt is asked about reports that Ayatollah Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, could possibly be named his successor.

The press secretary says she has seen those reports, but that we have to "wait and see" what happens next. She says that the administration hopes freedom and democracy come to the Iranian people.

• For context: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in initial US-Israeli strikes over the weekend.

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"Operation Epic Fury has forged a new path that would better ensure the security of the United States and our people," Leavitt says.

"Make no mistake, killing these brutal terrorists is good for America, and makes the world a much safer place," the press secretary adds, as she pays tribute to the US service members who have been killed since the operation was launched.

Leavitt says more than 17,500 Americans have safely returned to the US from the Middle East since the operation to evacuate civilians from the region began.

She adds that US citizens in the Middle East looking to return should register with the State Department.

Leavitt says that US President Donald Trump prefers to put peace and diplomacy first, while Iran "chose this path of violence and destruction and they are reaping the consequences".

She says the Iranian regime "lied and delayed and tried to string the US along" during negotiations before the initial US-Israeli attack, in order to buy time so they could build ballistic and nuclear weapons.

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The White House press secretary says US operations in Iran are aimed at "permanently extinguishing their nuclear ambitions".

She lays out the objectives we've been hearing from others in the administration over the last few days - including destroying Iran's ballistic missiles and annihilating its navy.

Leavitt says the US has destroyed more than 20 ships already - something we heard from the US Central Command earlier.

Iran's proxies, meanwhile, are "hardly putting up a fight" and will no longer be able to destabilise the world, she says.

Leavitt says Iran's leaders are "paying in blood" for what she calls their crimes against the US, before going on to talk about the regime's actions since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

She says past presidents have been "too weak" against Iran, but "Trump is finally the man of action".

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is now addressing reporters in Washington DC.

The US-Israel war with Iran is likely to be the biggest topic on the table today. We'll update you with the key lines here and you can watch live at the top of the page.

Daniel Bush
Washington correspondent, reporting from the White House

I'm at the White House now, waiting for the first press briefing since the US attacked Iran last Saturday.

The room is packed ahead of the briefing, which is slated to start at 13:00 local time (18:00 GMT).

In recent days President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior administration officials have all addressed Iran.

But this will likely be the longest exchange yet between the press and the White House on the war.

Iraq's electricity ministry says the entire country has been affected by a total power outage.

"The power grid has completely shut down across all Iraqi provinces," the ministry says, according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

The reason for the blackout is currently under investigation, the ministry says in a statement seen by Reuters news agency.

The US embassy in Baghdad is urging all US citizens in Iraq to leave the country as "soon as they are safely able to do so".

They are told to shelter in place until conditions "are safe to depart".

Ghoncheh Habibiazad and BBC Persian

BBC Persian has been hearing from Iranians, as the country continues to be targeted by US and Israeli strikes.

Sajad says most shops are closed, food prices have gone up, and the streets are very quiet.

While people are "anxious and stressed", the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made him "more hopeful about the future".

"Almost no one imagined that things would reach this point," he says, adding that the "scale of these attacks" on the western city of Urmia is "truly shocking".

Amir, who left Iran two weeks ago and is now stuck in the United Arab Emirates, says: "Nothing good comes out of war. But unfortunately, we’ve been pushed to a point where some people are willing to endure this pain in the hope that we might see a better tomorrow."

He adds that he "shakes" every time he hears of another attack on Tehran as that's where his family is: "I would rather be under the bombing myself than sit here knowing it’s happening to my loved ones. Our people deserve a normal life".

"Tehran feels very empty," says one woman in her twenties. "Anyone leaving home I think must have an urgent reason, otherwise they’d stay at home."

She says that she had a plane ticket, booked for yesterday, to travel to Europe and study, but "all my plans are now up in the air, which makes me feel a bit sad."

"On the first day, people were chanting and everyone seemed happy," she says. "But now there are police forces around. Most shops are closed. Supermarkets and bakeries remain open, though some ATMs are out of service."

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