United States-Israel war on Iran<\/a> enters its 101st day on Monday.<\/p>\nHere is what is happening:<\/p>\n
In Iran
\nExplosions heard in Iran: Iran\u2019s IRNA news agency reported that at least \u201ctwo powerful explosions\u201d were heard in Tehran and at least three in the city of Isfahan. The broadcaster also reported that explosions were heard in Tabriz. The Israeli military had said it \u201cattacked military targets\u201d in western and central Iran.
\nPower plant in Mahshahr attacked: A security officer in the southwestern Khuzestan governorate told the Fars news agency that Israeli forces have attacked the Karun Petrochemical Company in the city of Mahshahr. The Israeli army confirmed striking the petrochemical plant. The Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone announced that its workers have evacuated the site following the Israeli strike.
\nIran denies attacking base in Saudi Arabia: Responding to reports of an explosion at the Al-Kharj airbase in Saudi Arabia, Iran\u2019s IRIB broadcaster cited a military official as saying that \u201cIran has not fired any shots.\u201d
\nRed Crescent on standby: The Iranian Red Crescent says it is standing by to respond to any fallout from Israel\u2019s attacks across the country this morning.
\nIn Israel
\nSecurity cabinet meeting: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene a security cabinet meeting at 11am local time (08:00 GMT) amid escalating hostilities with Iran, according to multiple Israeli media reports.
\nThe Israeli military issued a series of alerts starting Sunday over waves of missiles launched from Iran towards Israeli territory.
\nIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that they launched attacks against Israel\u2019s Nevatim and Tel Nof airbases as a response to attacks on radar sites within Iran, the Fars news agency reported.
\nIsrael\u2019s Channel 12 broadcaster and Ynet News said a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted.
\nIn the US
\nThe US State Department issued a security alert for citizens in Jordan over reports of projectiles in the country\u2019s airspace \u2013 presumably missiles fired by Israel towards Iran, or by Iran towards Israel.
\nDemocratic Senator Chris Murphy said Israel\u2019s latest attack on Iran \u201ccompounds\u201d the \u201chumiliation\u201d for US President Donald Trump, as it comes after the US president reportedly told Netanyahu not to retaliate to Iran\u2019s missiles fired at northern Israel.
\nIn Lebanon
\nExplosions were heard in the Lebanese capital Beirut early on Monday, but these were likely rocket interceptions, Al Jazeera\u2019s Zeina Khodr reported from Beirut.
\nOn Sunday, Israel had hit the suburbs of Beirut, in attacks that Iran described as crossing a red line in terms of violating a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel. Iran then said its decision to hit northern Israel was in response to these attacks near Beirut.
\nWar diplomacy
\nIsrael defends attacks on Iran: The Israeli ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, defended the attacks on Iran, saying \u201cno self-respecting country\u201d would tolerate Iran\u2019s missile launches against Israel.
\nCanada expresses concern: Canada\u2019s Foreign Ministry has expressed concern about the resumption of conflict between Iran and Israel, saying it jeopardises the ongoing negotiations and \u201cthe prospects for peace\u201d.
\nSaudi-Qatari foreign ministers speak: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud spoke by phone with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said.
\nQatari-Iranian foreign ministers speak: The Qatari foreign minister, who is also the country\u2019s prime minister, spoke by phone with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi about mediation efforts between Iran and the US, as well as the latest developments in Lebanon, according to a Qatari statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXPLAINER Tensions have escalated between Iran and Israel while ongoing diplomatic efforts have failed to yield a lasting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6896,2065,6901,2542,43,5575,71301,6897,12241,14512,44,41,39,42,40,1055,6075,262188],"class_list":["post-722764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-canada","tag-conflict","tag-explainer","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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