The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they unfold.

IDF says launched new wave of airstrikes against regime infrastructure in Tehran

Following the recent round of Iranian ballistic missile fire targeting northern Israel, the IDF says it has launched a new wave of airstrikes in the Iranian capital.

It says the strikes are targeting “infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran.”

Report: US approves $7 billion more in weapons for United Arab Emirates

The Trump administration has approved about $7 billion in weapons for the United Arab Emirates that the State Department is not required to announce to the public under rules governing US arms exports, the Wall Street Journal reports.

That is in addition to arms sales to three Middle East countries worth more than $16.5 billion announced earlier on Thursday, the Journal says.

The unannounced deals include the sale of Patriot PAC-3 Missiles worth about $5.6 billion and CH-47 Chinook helicopters costing about $1.32 billion to the UAE, the Journal says, citing US officials, adding that those sales were not announced publicly because they expanded previously agreed arms deals.

UN Security Council holds urgent closed meeting on Iran’s ‘cowardly’ attacks on Gulf energy sites

Bahrain’s UN Ambassador Jamal Alrowaiei, the Arab representative on the UN Security Council, says his country requested an urgent meeting because of the continuing “cowardly attacks by Iran” on Gulf countries, Jordan and other nations.

He says afterward that Bahrain and many of the 15 council members stressed a need for Iran to implement a March 11 resolution demanding an immediate halt to attacks against Gulf countries and the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure, including energy installations.

He says the resolution, adopted by a vote of 13-0 with Russia and China abstaining, also calls for Iran to stop all actions and threats aimed at closing, obstructing or interfering with navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for shipment of 20% of the world’s oil.

Alrowaiei dodges a question about reports that Bahrain is seeking a resolution on freedom of navigation, including through the strait.

UAE says it dismantled terrorist network funded by Iran and Hezbollah

United Arab Emirates authorities say they have dismantled what they call a terrorist network funded and operated by Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group and by Iran, and arrested its members.

According to the state news agency, the network was involved in “money laundering, financing terrorism and threatening national security.”

“The network had been operating within the country under a fictitious commercial cover and sought to infiltrate the national economy and carry out external schemes threatening the country’s financial stability,” the agency says.

There is no immediate comment from Hezbollah or Iran.

EU leaders call for moratorium on strikes against energy and water facilities in Middle East 

Leaders from the European Union’s 27 countries call for de-escalation in Iran and the wider region, as well as a moratorium on striking critical infrastructure, amid growing concerns about the impact of the Iran war on the global economy.

Leaders discuss the situation in the Middle East and its broader implications during a regular summit in Brussels.

“The European Council calls for de-escalation and maximum restraint, the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure and full respect of international law by all parties,” the leaders say in written conclusions following their talks.

“In this regard, it calls for a moratorium on strikes against energy and water facilities,” they say.

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