US Embassy in Saudi Arabia hit with Iranian drones as American and Israeli assaults on Iran escalate | EUROtoday

Iran hit the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a drone strike early Tuesday because it saved hanging targets across the area, whereas the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S. President Donald Trump recommended was simply the beginning of a relentless marketing campaign that would final greater than a month.

The assault from two drones on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh induced a “limited fire” and minor harm, in keeping with Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry, which didn’t launch additional particulars. It follows an assault the day earlier than on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.

The growth of Iranian retaliation throughout the Gulf and the depth of the Israeli and American assaults, the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the dearth of any obvious exit plan portend a attainable extended battle with far-reaching penalties.

Many international locations deemed secure havens within the Mideast have been hit by Iran in retaliation for the U.S. and Israeli strikes, with latest targets together with two Amazon information facilities within the United Arab Emirates and a drone affect close to one other in Bahrain that induced harm, the corporate stated Tuesday. Iran has additionally hit vitality amenities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and attacked a number of ships Strait of Hormuz, the slim mouth of the Persian Gulf by way of which a fifth of all oil traded passes, sending world oil and pure fuel costs hovering.

The U.S. State Department urged U.S. residents to go away greater than a dozen Middle Eastern international locations attributable to security dangers, as have many different international locations, although with a lot of the airspace closed many stay stranded.

Trump stated operations are prone to final 4 to 5 weeks however that he was ready “to go far longer than that.”

“The hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed reporters earlier than briefing members of Congress concerning the Iran operation.

Hundreds lifeless in Iran and dozens in Lebanon together with 11 in Israel

The Iranian Red Crescent Society stated the U.S.-Israeli operation has killed a minimum of 555 individuals. In Israel, the place a number of places have been hit by Iranian missiles, 11 individuals have been killed. Israel’s retaliatory strikes towards Hezbollah killed dozens of individuals in Lebanon.

“Military escalation would force more families from their homes and hit civilians hard,” stated Amy Pope, director common of the International Organization on Migration as she known as Tuesday for the worldwide neighborhood to press for de-escalation.

“Millions are already displaced in the region,” she stated.

The U.S. army has confirmed six deaths of American service members. All six have been Army troopers and a part of the identical logistics unit in Kuwait, in keeping with a U.S. official who was not approved to remark publicly and spoke on situation of anonymity.

Three individuals have been reported killed within the United Arab Emirates, and one every in Kuwait and Bahrain.

Iran’s prime diplomat on Monday shared a photograph displaying graves he stated have been for greater than 160 ladies killed throughout a U.S.-Israeli strike on a faculty in Minab. “Their bodies were torn to shreds,” Abbas Araghchi, the nation’s overseas minister, stated on X.

In Israel, three younger siblings killed by an Iranian strike have been being laid to relaxation on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on Monday evening.

The chaos of the battle turned obvious when the U.S. army stated Kuwait had “mistakenly shot down” three American fighter jets whereas Iran was attacking it with plane, ballistic missiles and drones. U.S. Central Command stated all six pilots ejected safely.

Israel and U.S. goal nuclear amenities and missile infrastructure

Iranian state TV stated strikes induced two explosions early Tuesday at a broadcasting facility in Tehran, however stated nobody was injured.

Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, informed reporters that airstrikes focused the Natanz nuclear enrichment web site on Sunday.

“Their justification that Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons is simply a big lie,” he stated.

Israel and the U.S. haven’t acknowledged strikes on the web site, which the U.S. bombed within the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel in June. Israel has stated it’s concentrating on the “leadership and nuclear infrastructure.”

Trump stated the army marketing campaign’s targets are to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, wipe out its navy, stop it from acquiring a nuclear weapon and make sure that it can not proceed to assist allied teams like Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which fired missiles at Israel on Monday.

Iran has stated it has not enriched uranium since June, although it has maintained its proper to take action and says its nuclear program is peaceable.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained, nevertheless, that Iran was rebuilding “new sites, new places” underground for making atomic bombs in an interview broadcast late Monday on Fox News Channel’s Hannity.

“We had to take the action now and we did,” stated Netanyahu, who provided no proof to assist his declare.

Satellite photographs analyzed by The Associated Press confirmed restricted exercise at two nuclear websites in Iran earlier than the conflict. Analysts stated Tehran was possible assessing harm from the 2025 U.S. strikes and probably salvaging what remained.

Attacks on Iran have drawn in proxy forces from round area

The battle has additionally unfold to Lebanon, the place the Iranian-supported militant group Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel on Monday, although there have been no stories of accidents or harm.

Israel retaliated with strikes on Lebanon. The nation’s Health Ministry reported a minimum of 52 individuals have been killed and 154 wounded in in a single day strikes within the Beirut suburbs and southern Lebanon.

An Israeli army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, stated Israel is conserving “all options on the table,” together with a possible floor invasion of Lebanon.

Israel hit Beirut with extra airstrikes early Tuesday morning, saying it was concentrating on “Hezbollah command centers and weapons storage facilities.”

Hezbollah additionally stated it launched drones concentrating on an Israeli air base. The Israeli army stated it downed two drones.

An Iranian-linked militant in Iraq has additionally claimed strikes on U.S. army amenities.

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Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, Hallie Golden in Seattle, Washington and Giovanna Dell’Orto in Miami contributed to this report. Rising reported from Bangkok and Magdy from Cairo.