The Israeli military says it has launched another series of strikes across the Iranian capital Tehran.
“The IDF has begun an additional wave of strikes targeting military infrastructure belonging to the Iranian regime across Tehran,” the Israel Defense Forces says in a statement.
It doesn’t offer any further information about a specific location, but says further details will follow.
News agency AFP reports that its journalists witnessed a powerful explosion in the capital on Wednesday night.
Earlier on, the Israeli military announced its air force had completed a “wide-scale strike” on an eastern Tehran compound containing command centres and internal security personnel.
Meanwhile, the war powers vote in the US Senate has just failed in a 47-53 vote – with lawmakers taking their votes almost entirely down party lines.
In the end, Senator Rand Paul joined the Democrats to vote yes on limiting Trump’s military powers in Iran, with Senator John Fetterman joining the Republicans to vote no.
But this is not the last we’ll hear from Congress – which is the only US government branch which can officially declare war – on these military operations in Iran.
The House is set to vote on the same question tomorrow, and some senators told us reporters on the Hill this week that they may be more inclined to back a war powers resolution in the future, if the war rages on past the few weeks Trump has estimated the operation could last.–BBC
