Iran yesterday launched a new wave of attacks at Israel, US bases and countries across the region, threatening that the US would “bitterly regret” torpedoing an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean and calling for US President Donald “Trump’s blood,” while Israel said it hit multiple targets in Iran.
Israel announced multiple incoming missile attacks, and air sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Iranian state television said that additional strikes also targeted US bases.
Photo: AFP
The Israeli military said it had hit 80 targets in Lebanon linked to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group over the previous 24 hours, and that a wave of strikes on Iran had hit long range ballistic missile launch sites and other targets.
Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi accused the US Navy of committing an “an atrocity at sea” for sinking the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean, which killed at least 87 Iranian sailors.
“Mark my words: The US will come to bitterly regret [the] precedent it has set,” Araghchi wrote on social media.
Photo: AFP / US Department of Defense
The Iranian ship was on its way back from participating in exercises last month hosted by the Indian Navy.
The US Navy also participated in the same exercises, deploying a P-8A Poseidon aircraft, which is employed for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, as well as surveillance and reconnaissance.
Sri Lankan authorities said 32 crew members were rescued from the Dena, while its navy recovered 87 bodies.
Araghchi said it had been carrying “almost 130” crew.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said that a US submarine had sunk the ship with a torpedo.
Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, in one of the few clerical statements so far from Iran, later called on state television for the shedding of both Israeli and “Trump’s blood.”
“Fight the oppressive America, his blood is on my shoulders,” said the ayatollah, one of the highest ranks within the clergy of Shiite Islam.
The war has killed more than 1,000 people in Iran, more than 70 in Lebanon and about a dozen in Israel, officials said.
Qatar evacuated residents near the US embassy in Doha, which later reported a missile attack.
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