Overnight, the Israeli Air Force struck Iran’s “leadership complex” in Tehran, the military said Tuesday, saying that around 100 fighter jets dropped over 250 bombs on the complex as the joint US-Israeli bombing campaign and Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone launches continued into their fourth day, wounding 12 people in Israel.

The buildings targeted in the complex included Iran’s presidential bureau, the headquarters of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, a compound used by Iran’s “most senior forum” for meetings, and an “institution for training Iranian army officers,” according to the IDF.

“The leadership complex of the terror regime is one of the most secured assets in Iran and spans many streets in the heart of Tehran,” the military said, describing it as the “most important and central headquarters for the Iranian terror regime.”

“The leadership and security officials of the terror regime convened in the compound frequently, and from there conducted, among other things, situation assessments regarding the Iranian nuclear program and the advancement of the plan to destroy the State of Israel,” the IDF added.

Later Tuesday, the IDF said the air force completed another wave of airstrikes in western Iran, targeting Iranian military assets. According to the military, the strikes hit dozens of Iranian ballistic missile launchers, air defense systems, drones, and other targets.

The military said the strikes were aimed at reducing the fire from Iran on Israel, and published footage showing some of the strikes.

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In addition to strikes, an unsourced report from the Saudi al-Arabiya news outlet claimed Tuesday that Israeli special forces, including Mossad operatives, were active on the ground in Iran overnight.

The report did not provide any details about the purported operation, and Israel did not issue an immediate comment on the report.

Dozen wounded in Israel as Iran strikes back, hits US embassy in Riyadh

As the IDF kept pounding Tehran and cities across the country with strikes, Iran launched dozens more ballistic missiles and drones at Israel and Arab countries across the Gulf.

After a 10-hour lull, sirens again sounded across Israel Tuesday morning and into the afternoon, including in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Submunitions from cluster bomb warheads hit several locations in central Israel, wounding 12 people, medics said Tuesday afternoon.

Magen David Adom said it treated a woman in her 40s in moderate condition who was injured by a blast, and four others in good condition after they were hit by glass shards and blasts.

While no major damage was reported in Israel, Iranian drones hit the US embassy in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh overnight, causing a “limited” fire on the premises, according to Saudi authorities, though videos appeared to show a large fire engulfing the compound.

The Saudi foreign ministry described the attack as “heinous and unjustified,” and said it intercepted eight more drones in two cities, including the capital.

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In the United Arab Emirates, debris from downed drones caused a fire at an oil facility in Fujairah, the state’s media office said. The blaze was brought under control and operations resumed, it added.

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According to a statement released by the Emirati defense ministry Tuesday, the UAE’s air defenses have intercepted 172 of 186 ballistic missiles launched toward the country from Iran since Saturday, while 13 of them fell into the sea, and one landed on UAE territory. The UAE also said it has been targeted by hundreds of drones.

Emirati authorities have said that three people, all foreigners, were killed and 58 were injured in the UAE since Iran began its retaliatory campaign in the Gulf. Some buildings have sustained damage, including Dubai International Airport and Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International Airport.

Explosions and sirens were also head overnight in the Bahraini and Qatari capitals, as the Iranian armed forces announced they had launched strikes on the major US air base in Al-Udeid, Qatar.

Amid the strikes, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said Tuesday that Doha currently has no communication with Iran, adding that the Islamic Republic did not notify Qatar ahead of missile and drone strikes.

Ansari said that attempts to force a return to negotiations by pressuring Gulf countries will fail. Experts believe that Iran’s strategy is to hammer US allies in the region so that they push US President Donald Trump to return to talks with Iran.

Iran has tried but failed to target Hamad International Airport in Doha, the Qatari spokesman said, adding that all attempts were intercepted.

He also said that the two Iranian SU-24 bombers that were shot down by Qatar Monday were flying toward Doha and were warned before being shot down. Qatar is searching for the pilots, he said.

Iranian suicide drones are striking the Port of Salalah in Oman. This is the same Oman that did everything they could to help Iran avoid a war by holding peace talks between the U.S. and Iran in Oman. This is how Iran returns the favor… pic.twitter.com/kht0X2u4vS — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 3, 2026

Iranian suicide drones are striking the Port of Salalah in Oman.

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In Oman, several drones targeted the port of Duqm on its eastern coast on Tuesday, according to a security source quoted by the official Oman News Agency.

“The resulting damage was contained without any human casualties,” the report said. The attack was the second on the port in three days, with the sultanate hit despite acting as a mediator between Iran and the United States just days prior to the war.

Oman also shot down two further drones on Tuesday, while another crashed near its Salalah port, state media said.

Amid the strikes, the US Embassy in Oman instructed staff to shelter in place, and recommended that US citizens do the same. The shelter-in-place order will remain “until further notice,” the embassy said.

Images show Natanz nuclear site hit by recent strikes, IAEA confirms

Meanwhile, in Iran, satellite images taken by the Vantor geospatial intelligence firm Sunday and Monday showed that several buildings within the Natanz nuclear facility complex in Isfahan, Iran, appear to have sustained fresh damage in the US-Israeli bombing campaign.

In the bottom photo, taken on Monday, at least two small buildings inside the facility appear to have sustained significant damage, after appearing unharmed in images captured the day before.

The Natanz facility was one of the main targets in the previous 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June, which the US briefly joined.

Iran accused Israel and the US on Monday of having again attacked the facility, though neither the IDF or the Pentagon announced any strikes on the site.

“The criminal regimes of the United States and Israel, pursuing their aggression, again targeted the Natanz nuclear site on Sunday afternoon in two brutal attacks,” Iran’s atomic energy chief Mohammad Eslami said in a letter to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, quoted by the IRNA news agency.

The International Atomic Energy Agency later confirmed that buildings at the Natanz nuclear facility sustained partial damage.

“Based on the latest available satellite imagery, IAEA can now confirm some recent damage to entrance buildings of Iran’s underground Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP),” the agency wrote on X, adding, “No radiological consequence expected and no additional impact detected at FEP itself, which was severely damaged in the June conflict.”

Iran warns Europe not to get involved; UK to send warship to protect Cyprus base

Iran’s foreign ministry on Tuesday warned European countries not to take any part in the US-Israeli campaign against the Islamic Republic, saying it “would be an act of war” that would be “regarded as complicity with the aggressors.”

Germany, France, and the UK said on Sunday that they could take “proportionate defensive action to destroy Iran’s capability to fire missiles and drones at their source.”

According to a Tuesday report in the British daily The Times, the UK will send a warship to defend the RAF Akrotiri British sovereign base in Cyprus, after it was targeted by Iranian drones Monday.

“HMS Duncan is ‘likely’ to be deployed to defend RAF Akrotiri as Middle East conflict escalates,” the report read.

The Times ​report, citing three sources, said ​British defense minister John Healey had a meeting ‌yesterday ⁠with senior military figures in which they discussed sending HMS Duncan to the region.

France is also planning to bolster the island’s defenses, moving to send anti-missile and anti-drone systems to Cyprus following the Iranian attacks, according to an earlier Cypriot media report.

Iran raises death toll past 780

The Iranian Red Crescent said Tuesday that more than 780 people have been killed nationwide in US and Israel strikes since Saturday. The tolls could not be verified by AFP.

“According to field reports from operational teams, unfortunately, 787 compatriots have been martyred in these attacks,” the Red Crescent said on its website.

It said strikes since Saturday have hit 153 cities and more than 500 locations across Iran in more than 1,000 attacks.

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed Saturday in Israel’s opening strike on his compound in Tehran.

In response, Iran escalated its attacks on the region, continuing to target Israel with barrages of missiles. As of Tuesday, 11 people had been killed in Israel as a result of Iranian ballistic missile attacks since the full-scale conflict began.

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