Iran launches new wave of attacks and says US will 'bitterly regret' sinking Iranian sub

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran launched a caller question of attacks Thursday greeting astatine Israeli and American bases and threatened that the United States would “bitterly regret” torpedoing an Iranian warship successful the Indian Ocean portion Israel said it had begun a “large-scale” onslaught connected Tehran.

Israel announced aggregate incoming rocket attacks and aerial sirens sounded successful Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Iranian authorities tv said further strikes besides targeted U.S. bases. The Israeli subject said it launched targeted attacks successful Lebanon astatine the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant radical a “large-scale question of strikes against infrastructure” successful Iran’s capital, without elaborating. Explosions were heard successful aggregate locations successful Tehran a abbreviated clip later.

The U.S. Navy sank an Iranian warship Tuesday nighttime successful the Indian Ocean, sidesplitting astatine slightest dozens of Iranian sailors, which Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi decried Thursday arsenic “an atrocity astatine sea.”

“Frigate Dena, a impermanent of India’s Navy carrying astir 130 sailors, was struck successful planetary waters without warning,” helium wrote connected societal media. “Mark my words: The U.S. volition travel to bitterly regret (the) precedent it has set.”

The U.S. and Israel launched the warfare Saturday, targeting Iran’s leadership, rocket arsenal and atomic programme portion suggesting that toppling the authorities is simply a goal. But the nonstop aims and timelines person repeatedly shifted, signaling an open-ended conflict.

The tempo of American and Israeli strikes connected Iran was truthful aggravated Wednesday that authorities tv announced the mourning ceremonial for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed astatine the commencement of the conflict, would beryllium postponed. Millions attended the ceremonial of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, successful 1989.

President Donald Trump praised the U.S. subject for “doing precise good connected the warfare front, to enactment it mildly.” Fellow Republicans successful the U.S. Senate stood with Trump connected Iran arsenic they voted down a solution seeking to halt the war.

Iran fired connected Bahrain, Kuwait and Israel arsenic the struggle spiraled. Turkey said NATO defenses intercepted a ballistic rocket launched from Iran earlier it entered Turkey’s airspace.

The warfare has killed much than 1,000 radical successful Iran, much than 70 successful Lebanon and astir a twelve successful Israel, according to officials successful those countries. It has disrupted the proviso of the world’s lipid and gas, snarled planetary shipping and stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers successful the Middle East.

Threats expanding crossed the Middle East

Countries astir the portion braced for imaginable dangers Thursday, a time aft Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened “the implicit demolition of the region’s subject and economical infrastructure.”

Qatar’s Interior Ministry said authorities were evacuating residents adjacent the U.S. Embassy successful Doha arsenic a impermanent precaution, without providing further details.

Fighter jets could beryllium heard overhead successful the United Arab Emirates metropolis of Dubai and Saudi Arabia said it destroyed a drone successful its state bordering Jordan.

A caller onslaught disconnected the seashore of Kuwait appeared to grow the country wherever commercialized shipping was successful danger.

An detonation rocked the country aboriginal Thursday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center tally by the British military. It said a tanker seemingly came nether attack, but the bureau did not connection a cause. Iran successful the past has attacked ships by attaching limpet mines to them.

Prior attacks since warring began Saturday person happened successful the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, which connects it to the Persian Gulf and done which astir a 5th of the world’s lipid is shipped.

Brent crude prices are up 15% since the commencement of the struggle arsenic Iranian attacks person disrupted postulation done the strait, with the existent terms the highest since July 2024.

Buildings of Iranian subject and information forces targeted

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said a torpedo from an American submarine sank an Iranian warship Tuesday nighttime successful the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lankan authorities said 32 unit members were rescued, portion its navy recovered 87 bodies.

Israel said it deed buildings associated with Iran’s interior information bid arsenic good arsenic the Basij, an all-volunteer unit of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard whose bloody crackdown connected protesters successful January near thousands dead.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said his country's forces person decentralized leadership, with units acting mostly connected their own, which could blunt the effect of attacks connected apical bid and power hubs.

Shifting timelines for US operations

During his Pentagon briefing, Hegseth did not springiness a definitive timeline for U.S. operations, which Trump has said could past for a period oregon longer.

“You tin accidental 4 weeks, but it could beryllium six. It could beryllium eight. It could beryllium three,” Hegseth said. “Ultimately, we acceptable the gait and the tempo. The force is disconnected balance, and we’re going to support them disconnected balance.”

U.S. and Israeli subject officials accidental launches from Iran person declined arsenic their attacks person taken retired ballistic missiles, launchers and drones. Israel's Homefront Command announced it was easing restrictions that closed workplaces nationwide. It said workplaces could reopen Thursday if determination is simply a structure nearby. Schools would stay closed.

Still, explosions sounded aboriginal Thursday successful Israel, which said its antiaircraft systems were moving to intercept astatine slightest 3 waves of Iranian missiles.

At slightest 1,045 radical person been killed successful Iran, the country's Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs said Wednesday. Eleven radical person died successful Israel. Six U.S. troops person been killed, including a large whose individuality was released Wednesday.

Another 8 radical were killed successful Lebanon, including 2 successful a gathering struck by the Israeli subject successful the Beddawi exile campy successful the coastal metropolis of Tripoli connected Thursday and 3 connected a coastal highway, authorities said. The Israeli subject did not instantly accidental who it targeted successful the strikes.

In 2 near-simultaneous Israeli drone strikes successful Beirut's confederate suburbs precocious Wednesday, 2 vehicles were hit, sidesplitting 3 radical and wounding six, the wellness ministry said. The Israeli subject said it targeted a Hezbollah member, adding that further details would follow.

Israel's subject besides said it had deed “several bid centers” utilized by Hezbollah successful Beirut and showed video footage of a gathering being hit, but provided nary further details.

Israel says its violative had been planned for midyear

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the violative against Iran was primitively planned for mid-2026, but “the request arose to bring everything guardant to February.”

He listed events wrong Iran, Trump's positions and the anticipation of “creating a combined operation” arsenic reasons.

The protests successful Iran enactment unprecedented unit connected its leadership. Trump threatened subject enactment successful effect to the crackdown earlier shifting his attraction to Iran's disputed atomic program.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the U.S. launched its cognition partially retired of interest Iran mightiness onslaught U.S. unit and assets successful the portion first. A telephone telephone betwixt Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier the airstrikes began besides was “important with respect to the timeline,” she said.

Iran’s clerics are choosing a caller ultimate leader

Iran’s leaders are scrambling to regenerate Khamenei, who ruled the state for 37 years. It is lone the 2nd clip since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that a caller ultimate person is being chosen.

Potential candidates scope from hard-liners committed to confrontation with the West to reformists who question diplomatic engagement. Mojtaba Khamenei, Khamenei’s son, has agelong been considered among them, though helium has ne'er held a authorities position.

In a motion that Iran’s enactment volition lone question to consolidate its power, the caput of the judiciary warned that “those who cooperate with the force successful immoderate mode volition beryllium considered an enemy.”

Israel's defence minister, Katz, said connected X that Iran's adjacent ultimate person “will beryllium a people for elimination” if helium continues to endanger Israel, the U.S. and others.

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Rising reported from Bangkok, Becatoros from Athens, Greece, and Magdy from Cairo. Associated Press writers Sally Abou AlJoud successful Beirut, Lebanon, Melanie Lidman successful Tel Aviv, Israel, Julia Frankel successful Jerusalem and Giovanna Dell'Orto successful Miami contributed to this report.

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