Live: Iran holds funeral for top military, nuclear figures killed in Israeli strikes
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Iraqi state media reported that its airspace was closed and flights at all airports suspended after Israel's attacks on Iran.
Israel declared a state of emergency on Friday, warning of retaliatory action from Tehran after the Israelis launched a "preemptive strike" on the Islamic Republic.
"Following Israel's preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the State of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate term," a statement from the Israeli defence ministry said.
"Therefore, and in accordance with his authority under the Civil Defense Law, Defence Minister Israel Katz has now signed a special order, according to which a special state of emergency will be imposed in the home front throughout the entire State of Israel."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address that his country targeted Iran's main enrichment facility in Natanz on Friday and also its leading nuclear scientists.
"This operation will continue for as many days as it takes … We are at a decisive moment in Israel's history," Netanyahu said.
The Israeli premier also said that Iran has "significant capabilities to harm us."
"And so we have prepared for that as well. I ask for the cooperation of all of you, citizens of Israel. Close cooperation in the coming hours and days. I ask you to strictly adhere to the Home Front Command’s instructions. These instructions save lives."
Good morning readers,
Israel launched a series of strikes on Iran early on Friday, targeting the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities and killing one of its top generals.
Here are the latest updates:
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Iranian media reported explosions in Natanz, Tehran and several other cities, with state television broadcasting images of smoke and fires billowing from buildings
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were aimed at "rolling back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival," adding that it would take "many days.
"We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear enrichment programme," Netanyahu said in a recorded televised address.
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The commander of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, General Hossein Salami, and the deputy commander in chief of the armed forces, General Gholamali Rashid, were among those killed, Iran's state media said
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Iranian media also reported that two scientists, who it named as Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, were killed
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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Israel would face a "severe punishment" over the strikes, and confirmed the killings of the military officials and scientists
