Israel and Iran strike at each other in new wave of attacks

Iran fired a fresh barrage of missiles at Israel, state television announced early Sunday, as the rivals exchanged fire for a third day.

"A new wave of Operation Honest Promise 3 began a few minutes ago," Iranian state TV reported at around 03:10 am (2340 GMT Saturday), while broadcasting live images of Israel.

Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other late on Saturday, stoking fears of a wider conflict after Israel expanded its surprise campaign against its main rival with a strike on the world's biggest gas field.

Tehran called off nuclear talks that Washington had said were the only way to halt Israel's bombing, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were nothing compared with what Iran would see in the coming days.

Israel's military said more missiles were launched from Iran towards Israel late on Saturday, and that it was working to intercept them. It also said it was attacking military targets in Tehran. Iranian state television said Iran had launched missiles and drones at Israel.

Several projectiles were visible in the night sky over Jerusalem on Saturday night. Air raid sirens did not sound in the city but were heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

Israel's ambulance service said a woman in her 20s was killed and 13 other people injured when a missile struck a two-story house in northern Israel.

Iran said the Shahran oil depot in Tehran was targeted in an Israeli attack, but that the situation was under control.

Iranian news agency Tasnim reported early Sunday that an Israeli strike had targeted the country's defence ministry headquarters in Tehran and damaged one of its buildings.

In "an attack on Tehran this evening by the air force of the Zionist regime, the headquarters of the defence ministry was targeted. One of the headquarters' buildings was lightly damaged," the agency said.

US President Donald Trump had warned Iran of worse to come, but said it was not too late to halt the Israeli campaign if Tehran accepted a sharp downgrading of its nuclear programme.

A round of US-Iran nuclear talks due to be held in Oman on Sunday was cancelled, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi saying the discussions could not take place while Iran was being subjected to Israel's "barbarous" attacks.

In the first apparent attack to hit Iran's energy infrastructure, Tasnim said Iran partially suspended production at the world's biggest gas field after an Israeli strike caused a fire there on Saturday.

The South Pars field, located offshore in Iran's southern Bushehr province, is the primary source of gas production in Iran.

Fears about potential disruption to the region's oil exports had already driven up oil prices nine percent on Friday, even though Israel spared Iran's oil and gas on the first day of its attacks.

An Iranian general, Esmail Kosari, stated on Saturday that Tehran is reviewing whether to close the Strait of Hormuz, which controls access to the Gulf for tankers.

(Reuters)