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New Strikes in Tehran as Deadline Looms for Trump Threat to Infrastructure

Israeli officials said the strikes disabled major petrochemical facilities that fund the Revolutionary Guard and hit dozens of Iranian aircraft and helicopters.

  • On Tuesday, Israeli airstrikes pounded Tehran, targeting air force assets and key infrastructure, while Iran responded with sustained missile fire toward Israel's central cities.
  • President Donald Trump set a Monday deadline, threatening the 'complete demolition' of Iran's critical infrastructure if Tehran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which around one-fifth of the world's oil flows.
  • Israel disabled two petrochemical facilities accounting for about 85% of Iran's exports, a move Defense Minister Israel Katz called a 'severe economic blow' worth tens of billions of dollars to the regime.
  • Tehran has rejected a proposed 45-day ceasefire, insisting on a definitive end to the conflict, while Iran's ambassador to Pakistan said mediation efforts are 'approaching a critical, sensitive stage.'
  • Despite Trump's threats that 'every bridge in Iran will be decimated,' residents expressed numbness to the rhetoric, while analysts suggest Tehran remains unlikely to compromise on its core control of the strategic waterway.
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New strikes in Tehran as deadline looms for Trump threat to infrastructure

New strikes rocked Tehran on Tuesday with Iran showing no sign of backing down as a US deadline loomed for it to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or have its civilian infrastructure "decimated", according to President Donald Trump.

Alarms sounded in Beersheba, Dimona and other communities in the Negev following firing from Iran; missile launched at Eilat intercepted; several crash sites in the center; IDF completes extensive strike mission in Tehran and across Iran

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