Jon Donnison
Reporting from Tel Aviv

We’re just on the outskirts of Tel Aviv where, just as we were driving in, the sirens went off.

In front of us we can see the impact, a couple of cars have been completely destroyed, fires are burning and there’s bit of a sense of panic amongst the people here.

There’s a lot of people running towards the area, presumably to try to find out if anyone they knew has been hurt. It’s a pretty built up residential neighbourhood.

Most of these Iranian missiles are being shot down, but some are getting through.

Some of these missiles break up in the sky and form these smaller cluster bombs that don’t do as much damage when they fall, but are still potentially deadly.

Frank Gardner
Security correspondent, reporting from Riyadh

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Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB) at Al-Kharj, near the capital of Riyadh, has come under repeated missile and drone attack from Iran.

The air base is home to a number of US warplanes, with the Saudi defence ministry saying it has intercepted at least 10 drones in the Riyadh and Eastern Province regions.

Iran’s Fars news agency says it has fired a salvo missiles at the base.

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Senior reporter, BBC Persian

Iranians have told BBC Persian they are worried that it could take years to rebuild energy facilities and Iran could become "ruined" if attacks continue at pace.

One man describes how Kharg Island, where the US says it struck more than 90 military targets on Saturday, is a "very small island with kind people" but had not progressed much.

"It is the Islamic Republic's fault that they were neglected," he adds.

A man in his 20s who is not being named, from Tehran, says he strongly disagrees with the attacks and tells the BBC "at this pace we will end up with a ruined Iran".

Another man in his 20s, from Keraj, adds: "I just hope energy facilities are not attacked.

"It’s unclear how many years it would take to rebuild them - but I really don't care about military sites."

BBC Persian is the Persian language service of BBC News, used by 24 million people around the world - the majority in Iran - despite being blocked and routinely jammed by Iranian authorities.

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US intelligence shows that Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was wary of his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, taking power, sources tell the BBC's US partner CBS News., external

The sources report that the elder Khamenei was wary of his son ever taking power because he was perceived as not very bright, and was viewed as unqualified to be leader.

The intelligence also indicated that the father was aware that his son had issues in his personal life.

Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen publicly since he was elected supreme leader on 8 March, but on Sunday Iran's foreign minister said he was "in good health" and "fully controlling the situation".

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Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has dismissed reports from US media outlet Semafor that Israel told the US it is running "critically low" on missile interceptors.

"The answer is no," Saar tells reporters on a visit to a site in northern Israel damaged by an Iranian missile attack.

He also denies reports that Israel could soon hold direct peace talks with Lebanon, claims which were reported over the weekend by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

He adds that Israel sees "eye-to-eye" with the US and that their objective is to "remove the existential threats from Iran for the long term".

"We don't want to go every year to another war."

A few minutes ago, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had detected another wave of Iranian missiles being fired at Israel.

It comes less than two hours after the previous wave was reported.

New images show the damage caused by Israeli strikes on Haret Hreik, an area in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Smoke rises from a charred residential block, and debris litters the street. A car has been crushed and its windows smashed.

The neighbourhood is one of several that the IDF told people to evacuate earlier today. Strikes are aimed at Hezbollah targets in the region, the IDF says.

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An Israeli strike on a Lebanese town south of Beirut has killed one person and left three children injured, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA).

The strike occurred in Sharhabil, in the Sidon district, about 20 miles (32km) south of Beirut, NNA reports, citing the Lebanese health ministry,

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It's now day 16 of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Here's what you need to know this morning:

Strikes continue: Israel and Iran continued to exchange strikes overnight. Pictures from the Israeli city of Holon show an overturned car and a hole in the side of a residential building. Two people suffered minor injuries, according to emergency services. New strikes in the last hour also set fire to a car, and injured two men in their 50s.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says it has launched further strikes on western Iran. And in Lebanon, the IDF has issued new evacuation orders for those in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Gulf states intercept missiles: Gulf nations reported intercepting more missiles overnight. Saudi Arabia said it had taken down 26 Iranian drones, while Kuwait said it had downed five over the previous 24 hours. Meanwhile, sirens sounded in Bahrain.

No deal, Trump says: In a telephone interview with NBC News published late last night, US President Donald Trump said Iran wanted a deal but he was not ready for one, "because the terms are not good enough yet". He also said the US had "totally demolished" Iran's oil hub, Kharg Island, but that the US "may hit it a few more times just for fun".

Strait of Hormuz: This morning, British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said "any options" to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened are "being looked at". It comes after Trump called for a host of nations, including the UK, to send warships to the region. Here's how others have responded.

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In an update from Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency services, it says that it has now treated two men in their 50s for "minor injuries" following Iran's latest strikes.

It previously said no casualties were reported, but that its teams were still working in the affected areas.

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South Korea says it is "closely monitoring developments" related to the conflict in the Middle East after US President Trump called on the nation, among others, to deploy warships to the region.

Trump yesterday urged China, France, Japan, the UK and South Korea to send ships to "get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE!".

A spokesperson for the South Korean Foreign Ministry says Seoul is "paying close attention" to the US president's statements and is continuing to "communicate closely" with the US.

It says it is "exploring various measures" to protect Korean national and "ensure the safety of energy transportation routes".

Colleagues from Jerusalem have sent us this image from the outskirts of Tel Aviv, which shows the aftermath of the latest round of Iranian strikes.

As we said in the previous post, Israel's emergency services have said there have been no reported casualties following the attack.

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Israel's emergency services say there have been no reported casualties following the latest wave of strikes from Iran.

Authorities add that search and rescue teams are continuing to work in areas where reports of strikes have been received.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has issued a new warning, saying it had detected missiles being fired from Iran.

It is the fifth wave in the space of nine hours.

The IDF is encouraging people in affected areas to shelter.

US Central Command (Centcom) has accused the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of spreading false claims about the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

On its Farsi page on X, Centcom writes that the IRCG has "once again" claimed to have "disabled" the warship.

"Let us be clear: the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group continues to maintain complete dominance over Iran's airspace from the expanse of the sea," it says.

The US began building up its military presence in the Middle East in the lead-up to the conflict. As well as the Lincoln, the US Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is also operating in the region.

It has also been widely reported in US media that the US is sending additional forces to the Gulf, including what’s known as an amphibious ready group (ARG), with up to 5,000 Marines and sailors.

The amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli is expected to join the existing armada.

Israel has warned several neighbourhoods in southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut to evacuate "immediately" ahead of Israeli military action.

IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee says the warning particularly applies to residents of Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, Lilaki, Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Chiyah.

He says the IDF will not hesitate to target "anyone found in the vicinity of Hezbollah operatives".

"You are putting yourselves and your lives at risk... evacuate the area immediately," he writes on X.

British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says that it is a "priority for the world" to ensure the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.

Miliband tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that "any options that can get the Strait reopened are being looked at".

He says that the UK has already been talking with allies including the US about getting navigation through the Strait back to normal.

The energy secretary also points out that Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper was in Saudi Arabia last week talking to Gulf nations about the Strait and adds that the UK "wants to work with our partners on this".

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Senior reporter, BBC Persian

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The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said in an interview with Alaraby Aljadeed that Mojtaba Khamenei is “in good health” and “fully controlling the situation”.

• As a reminder, Mojtaba hasn't appeared publicly since his appointment on 8 March. His first public address was broadcast by state media on 12 March, read by a presenter

He says that Iran welcomes any “regional initiative that lead to a fair end of the war”, and Hormuz is “open to everyone except US ships and [US] allies”.

Araghchi has said that “there is no particular initiative on the table so far to end the war".

The Israeli health ministry has announced that 108 people have been taken to hospital with injuries in the past 24 hours.

It says of these, 96 had minor injuries, two were in "moderate" condition and nine were still undergoing medical assessment.

Since the outset of the conflict, it reports that 3,195 have been treated in hospital for their injuries, with 81 remaining in hospital as of 07:00 GMT on Sunday.

The health ministry does not report the number of deaths recorded.

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New images this morning show some of the damage caused by overnight strikes in Holon, a city south of Tel Aviv.

A car is overturned, debris is scattered around and there is a large hole in the side of a residential building.

The Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service says it provided treatment to two people at the scene for minor injuries.

An 80-year-old man was treated for glass fragments, and an 80-year-old woman for smoke inhalation. A number of victims were also treated for panic, MDA says.

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