Israel has launched air strikes on western and central Iran as explosions were reported in several Iranian cities, according to Israeli and Iranian media reports.
The Israeli army claimed early Monday its air force struck military sites belonging to the “Iranian regime.”
Iranian state TV reported explosions in the capital Tehran as well as in Tabriz and Isfahan, while Tasnim News Agency reported blasts near the city of Karaj.
IRNA also reported that at least three explosions were heard in Isfahan.
The strikes came hours after Iran launched several missile barrages toward northern Israel following an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Israel rebuffs Trump
The attacks further rattled a fragile April 8 truce as the war entered its 100th day, with the United States struggling to conclude a deal with Tehran to end the conflict.
Trump had sought to rein in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel accused Tehran of making a "grave mistake".
"I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate," Trump was quoted as saying by Axios journalist Barak Ravid in a phone interview, using Netanyahu's nickname.
"Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one," Trump reportedly said.
Ravid later posted that a US official said Trump spoke with Netanyahu, although the White House and Trump have yet to comment.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper joined the pleas for restraint.
"The resumption of conflict between Iran and Israel is in no one's interest," she wrote on X, calling for diplomacy.
Israel rebuffs Trump
The attacks further rattled a fragile April 8 truce as the war entered its 100th day, with the United States struggling to conclude a deal with Tehran to end the conflict.
Trump had sought to rein in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel accused Tehran of making a "grave mistake".
"I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate," Trump was quoted as saying by Axios journalist Barak Ravid in a phone interview, using Netanyahu's nickname.
"Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one," Trump reportedly said.
Ravid later posted that a US official said Trump spoke with Netanyahu, although the White House and Trump have yet to comment.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper joined the pleas for restraint.
"The resumption of conflict between Iran and Israel is in no one's interest," she wrote on X, calling for diplomacy.
War jitters grip ceasefire hopes
Tehran has insisted that any deal to permanently end the war must also halt the parallel conflict in Lebanon, where Israel is pursuing a campaign against the Iran-backed movement Hezbollah, and had warned that any new attacks on Beirut would trigger a "full-scale resumption" of hostilities.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ali Safari told Al-Mayadeen television that Tehran's strikes came after weeks of restraint against Israeli aggression, local media reported.
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards called the attack a "warning" after Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs earlier in the day, threatening wider strikes in the event of repeated aggression.
The Israeli army also said Monday it was working to intercept a missile launched from Yemen, where rebels have previously launched attacks on Israel.
On Sunday, Netanyahu's office announced the army had "struck a militant command centre in Beirut's Dahiyeh district, in response to Hezbollah's fire towards Israeli territory".
The raid killed two people and wounded 20 more, Lebanon's health ministry said.
Tehran also suspended all incoming flights to its international airport, local media reported Sunday.
The sharp escalation sent crude prices surging as hopes of an imminent reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway for oil and gas transit, which has been effectively shut by Iran, dimmed.
The latest attacks on Iran by Israel further strain efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire in the war between Iran and the United States.
The fresh exchange has raised the possibility of a return to heavy fighting and complicated any mediation efforts to end the war.
