Iran launches missiles at Israel in response to strikes on Beirut

Tehran official had promised ‘decisive and painful’ reply to Israeli bombing of apartment buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in response to Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, shattering a fragile ceasefire and marking the most serious escalation since April, after 100 days of war. A senior Iranian official has promised a “decisive and painful” response to Israel’s airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut and, a few hours later, sirens sounded across northern Israel. The Israel Defense Forces said it had so far intercepted all the Iranian ballistic missiles, as US president Donald Trump called Israeli prime minister Bejamin Netanyahu urging him “not to strike back”, adding he was “not happy about it” and that it would “not help” negotiations with Tehran. In an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday, Trump also said Netanyahu would have no choice but to accept whatever deal the US negotiates with Iran because Trump “calls the shots”. After the Israeli attack in the Dahieh district of Beirut, Ebrahim Rezaei, the spokesperson for the Iranian parliament’s foreign policy and national security committee, wrote on X: “We w