Guerre au Moyen-Orient: les derniers développements
Israel launched powerful new strikes on Iran on Wednesday and expanded its offensive into Lebanon, where loud explosions were heard in Beirut, on the fifth day of the Middle East war.
Iran continues to launch missiles against American and Israeli targets in the Gulf in retaliation. The conflict is causing oil prices to soar and unsettling markets, particularly in Asia where the Seoul stock exchange was suspended after a sharp drop.
A summary of the latest developments:
The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it had "struck dozens" of targets in Iran, including command centers in Tehran.
"The army dropped dozens of munitions on Homeland Security command centers," it said in a statement.
The army had announced earlier that it had targeted a secret underground military center in the Tehran region, destroying "a key element of the Iranian regime's ability to develop nuclear weapons".
The United States has struck "nearly 2,000 targets" since the start of the war with Iran, a US military official said Tuesday, asserting that the strikes in the first 24 hours were "twice" as many as those at the start of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Israel on Wednesday expanded the scope of its strikes in Lebanon, targeting the area of the presidential palace near Beirut and other areas south of the capital, as well as strongholds of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah.
A new strike targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday morning, following an evacuation order from the Israeli army.
For the first time, a strike targeted a hotel in Hazmieh, a Christian suburb of Beirut close to the presidential palace and numerous diplomatic missions.
Earlier, Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people on Wednesday south of Beirut and in Baalbek, the Health Ministry and state media reported.
The Revolutionary Guards claimed on Wednesday to have fired around 40 missiles at American and Israeli targets, without providing further details.
An Iranian missile struck the Al-Udeid US military base in Qatar on Tuesday "without causing any casualties," according to a statement released Tuesday by the Qatari Ministry of Defense.
State funeral for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who had ruled Iran for 36 years before being killed Saturday by Israeli-American strikes, will begin Wednesday evening for three days, the official IRNA news agency announced.
"From 10:00 PM on Wednesday (6:30 PM GMT), the faithful will be able to pay a final tribute to the remains of the martyred leader of the nation (...) at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque" in Tehran, Irna reported.
Ali Khamenei, who died at the age of 86, is to be buried in the holy city of Mashhad (northeast), where he was originally from.
The Revolutionary Guards claimed to have "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz, a key passage for global oil trade at the entrance to the Gulf, in a statement released Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the US Navy could escort oil tankers "if necessary" through the strait, where traffic is frozen.
Oil prices continued to climb in Asia on Wednesday.
In South Korea, trading was suspended on the Seoul stock exchange after the two main indices plummeted by more than 8%, while Tokyo lost over 4% and Hong Kong up to 3%. European stock markets closed sharply lower on Tuesday, but Wall Street merely eased off.
The United States has "authorized" its non-essential diplomatic staff to leave Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Oman, following six other countries in the region the previous day.
The first flight organized by France to repatriate its citizens from the Middle East arrived in Paris overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, coming from Oman. Germany and the United Kingdom are also scheduled to evacuate their citizens on Wednesday.
The Saudi Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday morning the interception of two missiles and nine drones in the country's airspace, in separate messages.
"Two cruise missiles were intercepted and destroyed in Kharj," a region in the center of the kingdom, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense.
Paris has announced it will send military reinforcements to the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and Rafale fighter jets. London is sending a warship and anti-drone equipment to protect British bases in Cyprus.
The US president asserted that Iran would have attacked "first" if Israel and the United States had not launched their operation on Saturday, which "destroyed almost everything" in Iran.
"I may have forced Israel's hand," he added, contradicting his foreign minister, Marco Rubio. According to Mr. Trump, most of the Iranian officials Washington had in mind to lead Iran after the war are dead.
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