By Tim Hume, Stephen Quillen, Mariamne Everett and Caolán Magee
- Explosions have been reported across Iran and Israel says it is carrying out new attacks on Tehran.
- The United States and Israel continue to bombard Iran, killing at least 1,230 people since Saturday, as Israeli forces also hammer Lebanon.
Azerbaijan’s president says Iran must apologise for ‘ugly’ drone incident
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Alliyev has said Iran must apologise after a drone injured two people in its autonomous exclave of Nakhchivan, and that those responsible must be held accountable.
In a post on the presidential website, Aliyev said he had convened a meeting over the incident, in which he said Nakhchivan International Airport, its terminal building, a school and other areas were “subjected to cowardly fire”.
“The territory of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic was subjected to fire by the Iranian state with unmanned aerial vehicles. The targets of the fire were civilian objects,” Aliyev said in a statement.
“The Azerbaijani state strongly condemns this ugly terrorist act, and those who committed it must be immediately held accountable.”
Azerbaijan has summoned Iran’s ambassador to the Foreign Ministry in Baku following the incident, which Tehran denies it carried out.
Israeli evacuation threat for southern Beirut covers area with hundreds of thousands of people
The Israeli military has issued a forced evacuation order for all of the southern suburbs of Beirut. That’s the Dhahiyeh area.
We’re talking about an area, according to the latest estimates, with some 400,000 people. I understand that the Israeli army has never before issued an evacuation order for this area.
There’s been a lot of gunfire in the last 10 minutes or so. That is sort of a warning by the forces in control here to tell people they need to evacuate.
There had already been an Israeli evacuation order in force for southern Lebanon. Bu this, with the incessant noise of an Israeli drone overhead, is bringing the fight that Israel has with Hezbollah much closer to the centre of Beirut.
