Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi said in an update that an Israeli strike on Sunday on Quds Square in northern Tehran injured 59 civilians and killed 12 people, including a pregnant woman. That attack also ruptured a main water pipeline.

Israeli officials have been pushing the United States to join the fray and use its huge bunker-busting bomb to crush Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Iran attacks on Israel continue, though only a portion of ballistic missiles have infiltrated Israel’s layered defense apparatus as Israel takes out Iranian strike capabilities.

Israel’s military said it struck a number of Iran’s missile launchers and weapons storage sites overnight. It hit surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missile launchers, unmanned aerial vehicles storage facilities,

We are doing what we need to do,” the Israeli leader told ABC News when asked if he plans on going after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

By Alexander Cornwell, Parisa Hafezi and Jeff Mason TEL AVIV/DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Iranian missiles struck major Israeli cities on Monday while Israel's prime minister said his country was on its way to eliminating "threats" from nuclear and missile facilities in Iran and civilian casualties mounted on both sides.

Haifa and Tel Aviv struck by Iranian missiles as U.S. embassy in Israel directs government employees and families to shelter in place at home.

Russia is watching Israel’s bombardment of Iran with mounting concern for the survival of a key ally, though the Kremlin recognizes it has few levers to influence the escalating conflict in the Middle East.

Israel’s air campaign on Iran’s capital appeared to broaden on the fourth day of an intensifying conflict as U.S. President Donald Trump posted an ominous message warning residents of the city to evacuate.

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