US Democratic Chris Murphy said Israel has humiliated Trump by launching strikes on Iran, despite his call for restraint.

“This war has been humiliating for Trump and American power generally. And when Trump announces he is going to call Netanyahu and tell him not to retaliate, and within hours Netanyahu retaliates, the humiliation just compounds,” Murphy wrote on X.

He added that Trump has lost control of the war and criticised the US president’s “gross incompetence”.

Ali Abdollahi, chief commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, warned that Israel will face more "crushing and regret-inducing blows" if it expands its attacks on southern Lebanon and Dahieh district south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut or responds to Iran's action.

In a statement aired by Iran's semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday (local time), he stressed that Israel must stop its attacks on southern Lebanon and Dahieh; otherwise, "devastating" attacks will begin against Israel and its supporters.

Israel has increased its "malicious actions" against Lebanese people on a daily basis with the US "greenlight" and international organisations' lack of response and "is perpetrating war crimes by using banned weapons, including phosphorus bombs," Abdollahi said.

Despite Iran's earlier warnings, Israel has increased its attacks on southern Lebanon and has targeted Dahieh by crossing all red lines, he said.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday that its aerospace force has launched ballistic missiles at the Ramat David Air Base in northern Israel in response to Israel's "widespread crimes" in southern Lebanon, including the killing and displacement of civilians, reports Xinhua news agency, citing local media. (IANS)

All US bases in the region would be considered legitimate targets for Tehran if Israel attacks, Reuters reported, citing a senior Iranian source.

Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf, said U.S. bases and Israeli assets are legitimate targets because of hostile acts,  including the "violation of agreements over Lebanon".

The IRIB broadcaster is citing a military official as saying that “Iran has not fired any shots” at the Al-Kharj airbase in Saudi Arabia.

The broadcaster said the official was responding to reports of an explosion at the base.

The report came after Saudi Civil Defence issued an alert warning of danger in the Al-Kharj governorate.

Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel's Minister Of national Security, said, "Tonight, Tehran must burn", as Israeli attacked Iran.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that Israel attacked targets “on our soil using air-launched ballistic missiles”.

The IRGC statement was carried by the IRNA news agency.

The Israeli military, in a post on X said, Major-General Eyal Zamir and senior Israeli officers have been conducting ongoing situation assessments over the past hours and are “commanding” Israeli strikes on Iran.

The military “is alert and ready to continue operations across all sectors against anyone who threatens the State of Israel”, it added in a post on X.

Iran Fires Missiles Into Israel In A First Since April Ceasefire, Iraq, Syria Shut Airspace

US President Donald Trump said that Iran's military capabilities have been severely degraded and insisted the conflict would not become an "endless war", arguing that the United States is close to either securing a nuclear agreement with Tehran or achieving its objectives through military means.

In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Trump said Iran retains only a fraction of its missile arsenal and maintained that the threat posed by the country has been significantly reduced after months of US military action.

"I would say, percentage-wise, maybe 21, 22 per cent of their missiles. It's a lot of missiles. But it's not what it was when we first attacked," Trump said when asked about Iran's remaining military capability.

Pressed on whether the United States risks becoming trapped in another prolonged Middle East conflict, Trump rejected the comparison and said the campaign against Iran bears little resemblance to previous US wars in the region. (IANS)

Israel launched airstrikes early Monday targeting central and western Iran in response to missile fire from Tehran, attacks that threatened to drag the wider Middle East back into a regional war.

Iranian state television reported the sound of explosions being heard in Isfahan, Karaj, Tabriz and Tehran, without immediately elaborating. A witness in Tehran described hearing at least one large blast somewhere to the west of the country’s capital city. Iran closed the airspace around Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, the country’s main airfield, after the Israeli attack.

Iranian officials offered no details on what had been struck, nor any damage information. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said that Israel used air-launched ballistic missiles in its attack Monday morning, without elaborating.

The Israeli military at dawn in Iran issued a short statement as the strikes started: “A short while ago, the Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran.” It did not elaborate.

The White House did not respond to messages about the strikes and whether they were done in coordination with the US. (AP)

Trump said that Iran's strikes on Israel have not changed his desire to conclude US-Iran negotiations. "It's not going to have any impact on the deal," he said.

Iran Fires Missiles Into Israel In A First Since April Ceasefire, Iraq, Syria Shut Airspace