Israel launches strikes on military targets in Iran, officials say

Iran launched a missile attack on Israel on October 1. An Israeli response had been expected since.

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00:00Israel launched airstrikes on what it described as military targets in Iran in retaliation

00:07for a ballistic missile assault earlier this month.

00:11There was no immediate information available on damage to the country, but Iranian state

00:16media reported the sound of explosions around Iran's capital Tehran without immediately

00:22elaborating.

00:24Iranian state television later identified some of the blasts as coming from air defence

00:28systems without offering more details.

00:31Two Israeli officials said the strikes on Iran were not targeting nuclear or oil facilities.

00:37The attack, threatened for weeks by Israel, comes as the Middle East sits on the precipice

00:42of a regional war, more than a year after an initial attack by Hamas killed around 1,200

00:48Israelis.

00:49Since then, Israel has launched a devastating ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and an

00:53invasion of the neighbouring Lebanon, targeting militants long armed and aided by Tehran.