Netanyahu's Office Targeted In "Surprise Missile Attacks," Claims Iran

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps - which reported to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader who was killed in the US-Israeli attacks on Saturday - said today it targeted Israel premier Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Tel Aviv as well as security and military centres in Haifa and an attack on east Jerusalem.

"The office of the criminal prime minister of the Zionist regime and the headquarters of the regime's air force commander were targeted," the Guards said in a statement carried by Fars news agency. 

It said Kheibar missiles were used in the attack.

A series of new explosions were heard above Jerusalem on Monday, AFP journalists reported, after the Israeli military said it had detected fresh missiles launched from Iran.

"A short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat," the military said in a statement.

The European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen slammed "reckless and indiscriminate attacks by Iran and its proxies against sovereign territories across the region," after strikes hit a British air base in Cyprus and a Saudi oil facility.

"We must work hard to de-escalate and stop the conflict spreading," von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels, warning "the stability of the region is of the utmost importance."

At least 555 people have been killed in Iran so far by the US-Israeli campaign, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said.

Israel and the US have struck targets across Iran since Saturday. The war that began with Khamenei's killing has engulfed the region, with explosions ringing in Dubai, Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere.

Earlier today, black smoke rose from the US embassy in Kuwait, while US warplanes crashed without causing casualties, as Iran pressed on with a third day of retaliation in the Gulf.

A US base and a power station were also targeted, in what was the most dramatic escalation for the small Gulf country in decades, after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and Baghdad's attempt to take over Kuwait in 1990.

Blasts also rang out over the Gulf cities of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and Manama as Iran targets America's Gulf allies after the killing of its supreme leader.

The embassy in Kuwait did not announce it had been hit, but issued a security alert urging people to stay away.

"There is a continuing threat of missile and UAV (drone) attacks over Kuwait. Do not come to the embassy," the statement said, adding: "US embassy personnel are sheltering in place."

The Iranian attacks have so far killed five people in the Gulf, according to authorities, including one person in Kuwait.