Israel says it has detected more missiles launched from Iran less than an hour after it was targeted by a previous barrage.

Sirens are going off in central Israel.

It’s currently around 1:33 a.m. local time in Israel.

Israel’s air defense attempted to intercept projectiles over Tel Aviv. Explosions and sirens were heard throughout the city.

Iran launched approximately 10 ballistic missiles toward Israel in its latest barrage, a military official told CNN, adding that most of them were intercepted.

The Israel Fire and Rescue Service said it received reports of impacts across the country.

Fire crews are responding to reports of a direct hit on a residential building in the central district as well as fallen shrapnel on another residential building in the north.

Several fires were also reported in open areas.

No casualties have been identified after emergency teams searched several affected locations, Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom said.

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone ahead of Trump’s Situation Room meeting, according to a White House official.

A readout of the conversation between the two leaders was not provided.

Israel and Iran are trading strikes for a sixth day after Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” in a warning to Iran.

Explosions heard over Tel Aviv

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Explosions heard over Tel Aviv

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Explosions have been heard over Tel Aviv after Israel warned it had detected incoming missiles launched from Iran.

Footage on Reuters showed Israel’s air defenses attempting to intercept projectiles in the sky.

It’s just after 1 a.m. local time in Israel.

The Israeli military said it has detected incoming missiles launched from Iran.

The public is advised to seek shelter as air defenses work to intercept the projectiles.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday cautioned against seeking a change to the Iranian regime through military means.

Macron got into hot water with US President Donald Trump on Monday after telling reporters that Trump had left the meeting early to discuss ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Iran.

Macron said France would support a ceasefire, though Trump quickly rejected the notion that he was working toward one.

“Our responsibility is to resume discussions as quickly as possible to restore a framework for addressing the nuclear and ballistic issues. This is what France has consistently done for the past 10 years,” Macron said.

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted a number of Israeli air bases from which attacks on Iran were launched, according to state-run news agency IRNA.

The strikes on the Israeli air bases were carried out “in response to the Israeli regime’s brazen attacks against the sacred soil of Islamic Iran,” IRNA reported Tuesday, citing an IRGC announcement.

CNN has been unable to independently confirm Iran’s claims.

“We also announce that these operations shall continue in a sustained, complex, multilayered, and gradual fashion,” the IRGC said, according to IRNA.

CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment.

Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday demanded Israel stop what it called illegal attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and accused Western countries of manipulating the situation to “settle political scores.”

The statement also accused unidentified Western countries of acting “out of opportunistic considerations” in supporting Israel’s actions, saying “It is obvious that attempts by the Western bloc to manipulate the global nuclear nonproliferation regime and use it to settle political scores with undesirable countries are extremely costly for the international community and absolutely unacceptable.”

It said that Russia had noted Iran’s “unwavering commitment” to its obligations to adhere to the non-proliferation treaty “and its readiness to resume contacts with the United States,” adding that a solution to the conflict could be “ensured only through diplomacy and negotiations.”

Days into Israel’s attacks on Iran and its nuclear program, senior Israeli officials are waiting to learn whether US President Donald Trump will help them finish the job.

“We are waiting for the decision of the president,” a senior Israeli official told CNN.

US and Israeli officials have been in frequent communication over the progress of Israeli military operations in Iran and the possibility of US involvement.

But two Israeli officials said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not explicitly urging Trump to approve US strikes on Fordow, the Iranian nuclear facility that lies beneath a mountain.

Netanyahu, like other Israeli officials, is hoping Trump reaches that decision himself, without feeling like he has been pressured into it by his Israeli counterpart.

Israeli officials insist that Israel has other options to destroy or at least temporarily disable the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow, but none are likely to be as effective as a strike from US strategic bombers using 30,000 pound bunker-busting bombs.

WhatsApp is concerned by the Iranian government’s warning to residents to stop using its app, a spokesperson for the company said in a statement Tuesday.

Earlier Tuesday, Iran’s state-run news agency IRIB reported that the Iranian regime warned people to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other “location-based applications,” saying that they are some of Israel’s “main methods to identify and target individuals.”

The spokesperson stressed that WhatsApp does not track users’ precise location and that all messages are end-to-end encrypted.

“All of the messages you send to family and friends on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, meaning no-one except the sender and recipient has access to those messages, not even WhatsApp. We do not track your precise location, we don’t keep logs of who everyone is messaging, and we do not track the personal messages people are sending one another,” the spokesperson said.

“We do not provide bulk information to any government,” the spokesperson said. “For over a decade, Meta has provided consistent transparency reports that include the limited circumstances when WhatsApp information has been requested.”

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday that he’s “pretty confused” on President Donald Trump’s recent aggressive posture on Iran.

Asked if he thinks the administration will take offensive action in Iran, Warner responded, “If you can predict Donald Trump’s foreign policy, you’re better than — I think — anyone in Washington.”

US Republican lawmakers are weighing in on President Donald Trump’s handling of the conflict between Israel and Iran.

threw cold water on a quick Senate vote to greenlight US action on Iran, saying that at the moment, “the president’s within his authorities” to act.

Pressed on whether Congress should get a say in any US military strikes on Iran, Thune argued, “We’re getting the cart ahead of the horse here,” but he didn’t rule out future congressional involvement down the line.

said Trump needs to make a decision “fairly soon” on providing assistance to Israel. Earlier, CNN reported Graham personally urged Trump in a phone call to go “all in” to end Iran’s nuclear program, including using the might of the US military.

said he thinks Trump “has done a masterful job of threading a very, very difficult needle.” He also insisted that Trump is consulting with experts in Congress, and he noted the president is being constantly briefed “regularly and frequently and all day every day.”

also argued that Congress does need to have a say in any military action against Iran, but he said he trusts Trump will consult them. “We should have some say so about it, especially if it’s in — involves possible World War Three, which it could. This is getting very touchy over there,” he said.

Reza Pahlavi — the exiled son of Iran’s deposed monarch — called for an uprising in Iran, saying, “the Islamic Republic has come to an end and is falling.”

In a video speech published on X on Tuesday, Pahlavi said “only a total uprising is needed in order to bring, forever, and end to this collective nightmare.”

In recent years, Israel has strengthened ties with Pahlavi, who has voiced support for Israel’s actions, drawing praise from some in the Iranian diaspora and accusations of betrayal from others.

His father, the late Shah of Iran, had warm ties with Israel before he was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

US President Donald Trump’s meeting with his national security team in the Situation Room has concluded, according to a White House official. It lasted for more than an hour.

It comes as the president weighs if the US should get further involved with the conflict between Israel and Iran. He left the Group of 7 summit in Canada a day early yesterday to return to Washington.

Israel has asked the United States for a purely “defensive posture” amid its conflict with Iran, Israeli Ambassador to US Yechiel Leiter told CNN.

More than 30 US aerial refueling tankers have been surged to the region over the last several days to prepare for the possibility that Trump decides to order the US Air Force to help refuel Israeli fighter jets as they carry out strikes over Iran, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

This post was updated with the conclusion of the Situation Room meeting.

The video shows what the Israeli Air Force says Iranian air defense missile batteries being destroyed in Iran.

Israeli Air Force targets Iranian air defense missile batteries

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Israeli Air Force targets Iranian air defense missile batteries

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The Israel Defense Forces said it has identified a new wave of incoming missiles fired from Iran.

Sirens are going off in different parts of the country, primarily in the north and Haifa. The public has been instructed to seek shelter.

Israel’s air force is targeting ballistic launching sites in Isfahan, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Effie Defrin said Tuesday evening. He said 12 sites are being struck in the current wave of attacks.

Israel has targeted three key Iranian nuclear facilities, including Isfahan, since it launched strikes on Iran.

Meanwhile in Iran, state television Press TV said Iran’s air defenses were dealing with a fresh wave of Israeli attacks in “densely populated” Tehran neighborhoods.

The IDF released a video which it said showed three key sites for storing and launching surface-to-surface missiles that were struck in Isfahan on Tuesday. CNN has not been able to independently verify the video.

“Thanks to our strikes, the forces of the Iranian regime have been pushed toward central Iran,” the spokesperson said. “Now they are concentrating their efforts on launching from the Isfahan area. They have withdrawn from western Iran — but we are right behind them.”

The military official said there are no more “cities of refuge” in the region, for Iran and its proxies. He drew parallels between Hamas and Hezbollah figures Israel targeted, with senior Iranian officials.

His remarks come as the IDF announced in a statement that it struck more than 70 Iranian aerial defense missile batteries. The Israeli military also hit several missile launchers and detection radars across Iran that it said were intended to prevent IDF strikes.

Oil prices surged on Tuesday to their highest levels in nearly five months as energy traders brace for further escalation in the Israel-Iran conflict.

The oil rally accelerated as President Donald Trump prepared to meet with national security officials at the White House Situation Room. Two officials told CNN that Trump is growing increasingly warm to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

US oil futures climbed 4.3% to settle at $74.84 – the highest closing price since January 22. Crude has spiked by 23% so far this month, a shift that is already boosting gasoline prices.

Brent crude, the world benchmark, jumped more than 4% on Tuesday.

Concerns about the Strait of Hormuz, the most critical oil chokepoint on the planet, were amplified by a collision between two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The incident is under investigation, but the Joint Maritime Information Center blamed “navigation-related” issues.

“The crash and resulting fire has seemingly raised concerns the situation could spiral out of control on the most heavily traveled oil shipping route in the world,” Robert Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities, wrote in a report on Tuesday.

However, Yawger noted that the Strait of Hormuz has never been closed, not even during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.