The US and Israel have launched a large-scale attack on Iran.
President Donald Trump said the US had begun “major combat operations” and urged Iranians to overthrow their clerical rulers once they were complete.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the compound of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been destroyed in “a powerful, surprise strike” and that there were many signs that he was “gone.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said earlier that Khamenei was alive “as far as I know”. He also denounced the strikes as “wholly unprovoked, illegal, and illegitimate”.
Iran responded to the attack by launching missiles towards Israel and four Gulf Arab countries which host US military bases: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE.
