Iranian authorities said they were free to target banks and economic centers linked to the U.S. and Israel across the Middle East, after what Iranian state media said was an attack on a bank in Tehran overnight.

This is a war of redemption that began on October 7,” Ophir Falk, foreign affairs adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said. At dawn on Saturday, Oct.

It also said that international financial institutions, including Middle Eastern and American banks, are also at peril.

Israel's ​intelligence assessment is that Iran's ‌new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was lightly wounded in the Israeli-U.S. joint air war ​against Iran and that is ​why he has not been ⁠seen in public,

As Hezbollah enters a new round of fighting with Israel, the Iran-backed group is facing increasing grassroots discontent.

The West Asia war entered its second week with escalating strikes, Iran mocking the US attack, and continued exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah.

An Israeli strike hit an ‌apartment block in central Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese authorities said, further widening Israeli attacks in the capital beyond the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs where heavy bombardment continued.