Israel Launches Intense Airstrikes on Tehran and Beirut

Intense Israeli airstrikes struck Tehran early Friday and hit other parts of Iran, including explosions near the missile-base region of Kermanshah.

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Israel said it had launched a "broad-scale wave of strikes" that have destroyed much of Iran's air defenses and missile launchers.

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The strikes on Iran were presented by Israeli authorities as a concentrated effort to degrade Iranian military infrastructure, and the reporting frames the action as part of a coordinated campaign rather than isolated strikes.

The available reporting is limited to these initial descriptions and statements from Israeli sources in the provided material.

The campaign followed a week of bombardment and new Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks that reached Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain—countries hosting U.S. forces—with no immediate casualty reports from those strikes.

The Boston Globe links Israel’s strikes to a broader tit-for-tat escalation across the region, noting the geographic reach of Iranian responses and the absence of confirmed casualties from those particular strikes in Gulf states.

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The reporting here focuses on sequence and scope rather than independent on-the-ground casualty verification.

The Boston Globe reports that Israel conducted airstrikes in Lebanon, including the southern suburbs of Beirut.

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The Boston Globe reports that fighting with Iran-aligned Hezbollah resumed and civilians fled.

Reporting presents the fighting in Lebanon as a concurrent front in the widening conflict.

The reporting highlights both military clashes with Hezbollah and the displacement and flight of civilians from targeted areas.

Casualty figures cited in the reporting span multiple countries and underscore the asymmetric human toll described in these accounts.

The wider conflict has disrupted oil flows and air travel.

Officials cited by the Boston Globe say the fighting has killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, more than 120 in Lebanon, about a dozen in Israel and six U.S. troops.

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The reporting documents U.S. military action at sea, saying the U.S. struck and set ablaze an Iranian drone carrier and released footage of the burning IRIS Shahid Bagheri, which the report described as a converted container ship with a 180-meter drone runway and transoceanic range.

These elements are framed as part of a larger, multi-domain campaign involving U.S. forces alongside Israeli operations.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned the U.S.-led campaign "is about to surge dramatically," signaling officials’ expectations of further escalation.

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The available reporting in the provided material is primarily drawn from The Boston Globe’s synthesis of official statements and observed military actions.

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