{"id":530974,"date":"2026-03-18T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530974\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:45:08","slug":"iran-launches-revenge-missile-attack-on-israel-after-assassinations-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530974\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches \u2018revenge\u2019 missile attack on Israel after assassinations | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Iran continues to face a daily onslaught of US and Israeli air attacks in Tehran and across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has fired deadly cluster missiles at central Israel in what it says is \u201crevenge\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/17\/israel-says-it-has-killed-ali-larijani-irans-top-security-official\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel\u2019s assassination<\/a> of its security chief Ali Larijani, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/3\/18\/iran-war-live-tehran-mourns-larijani-soleimani-two-killed-in-israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a> the United States and Israel triggered against Iran rages towards a third week.<\/p>\n<p>The attack overnight on Tuesday used multiple-warhead missiles that can better evade defence systems, killing two people in Israel\u2019s Ramat Gan area near Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Falling shrapnel injured several others and caused significant property damage, including at a Tel Aviv train station, according to Israeli media reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the attack exacted \u201crevenge for the blood of martyr Dr. Ali Larijani and his companions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Iran held funerals in Tehran on Wednesday for Larijani as well as Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Basij paramilitary force, who were both killed in Israeli air strikes. According to Press TV, the ceremony took place as officials and mourners gathered to honour the two figures.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, described it as a \u201cdifficult night\u201d in Israel, with the incoming cluster munitions causing \u201ca lot of alarm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said the two people killed in the country \u2013 a couple in their 70s \u2013 had a safe room in their home but were unable to reach it in time, raising concern that Israel\u2019s air raid sirens are not sounding quickly enough for people to react.<\/p>\n<p>Israel hits Iranian judiciary facility, kills 11 in western Iran<\/p>\n<p>Iran followed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/3\/18\/iran-war-live-tehran-mourns-larijani-soleimani-two-killed-in-israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another wave of missile strikes<\/a> on central Israel on Wednesday, as it faced the daily onslaught of US and Israeli air attacks.<\/p>\n<p>One attack struck a judiciary facility in southern Iran\u2019s Larestan, killing and injuring civilians and judicial staff, according to the judiciary\u2019s Mizan news agency. Another targeted natural gas facilities associated with its offshore South Pars field, reported Tasnim.<\/p>\n<p>Several other attacks took place in western Iran, including one that killed seven people and injured 56 in a densely populated part of Dorud city, and another that killed four people in a rural part of the Chegeni region, Tasnim added.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said one of Israel\u2019s overnight attacks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/18\/israel-says-it-killed-iran-intel-minister-in-third-assassination-in-2-days\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed Iran\u2019s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib<\/a>, though Tehran has not commented on the report.<\/p>\n<p>As part of their declared crackdown on alleged collaborators, Iranian authorities executed a man accused of spying for Israel\u2019s Mossad intelligence agency, according to the country\u2019s semiofficial Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran had informed it that a projectile hit the premises of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday, though there was no damage to the facility or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s killing of Larijani yesterday was the highest-profile assassination since it targeted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war. In addition to Larijani, Israel also killed Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has insisted its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/18\/killing-of-larijani-will-not-destabilise-iranian-political-system-minister\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">system of governance is resilient<\/a> and capable of withstanding such losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know why the Americans and the Israelis still have not understood this point: The Islamic Republic of Iran has a strong political structure with established political, economic and social institutions,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera. \u201cThe presence or absence of a single individual does not affect this structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Mohamed Vall, reporting from Tehran, said \u201cthe sheer number of leaders\u201d being killed is causing fear and uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US president just a few days ago said we don\u2019t know who remains to talk to. It\u2019s a very confusing situation, one that can lead into any direction,\u201d said Vall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran continues to face a daily onslaught of US and Israeli air attacks in Tehran and across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,801,803,129,3,21,19,22,20,25,231941,24],"class_list":["post-530974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}