Israel and the United States carried out a wave of attacks on Iran on Monday, killing more than 25 people, and Iran responded with missile fire on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbors, AP reported this morning. Explosions rang out in Tehran and low-flying jets could be heard for hours as the capital was pounded. Thick black smoke rose near the city’s Azadi Square after one airstrike hit the grounds of the Sharif University of Technology.
Among those killed in one of the attacks was the head of intelligence for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, according to Iranian state media and Israel’s defense minister.
After the earlier threats that Trump had issued about his deadline of the evening of April 6, with this threat to bomb power plants and bridges in Iran, he posted late April 5, a single line saying “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!” Media noted that it was not clear whether that meant he had extended the deadline another day.
The IRGC reported Sunday night that its counterattack included an attack on an oil refinery in Israel supplying jet fuel to the Israeli air force; an attack on the gas facilities of ExxonMobil and Chevron located in Habshan, the U.A.E.; a missile strike on the American petrochemical facility producing fuel for the armed forces of the U.S. located in Al-Ruwais, U.A.E., causing a widespread fire; and, among others, an attack on the American petrochemical facilities in Shuaiba, Kuwait, leading to a massive fire and the complete halt of this facility, which collaborates with the armed forces of the United States.
Iran fired four salvos of missiles at northern and southern Israel on Sunday, with one projectile hitting the Neot Hovav industrial zone south of Beersheba on Sunday afternoon, reported the Times of Israel. There were no reports of injuries though air defenses failed to intercept the missile.