Israel-Iran live updates: Trump says 'we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran'

Iran experienced a near-total internet blackout today.

Multiple government agencies claimed that the restriction was necessary to combat foreign cyberattacks.

Iran has in the past cut internet access for civilians in times of civil unrest, notably in 2019, when mass protests rocked the country, killing more than 100 people, according to estimates. The country shut off communications infrastructure for six days during those protests.

Iran’s connectivity has been intermittent since Israel’s missile strikes started last week. Analysts who talked with NBC News said some tools to communicate with the outside world, like WhatsApp and virtual private network services, were particularly affected.

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Iran is prepared to strike U.S. bases and assets in the Middle East if it opts to, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the planning, but there are no indications that anything is imminent.

U.S. bases and assets are at the highest state of alert and readiness and have been for months. After Israeli strikes on Iran began late last week, the officials said, concern about possible Iranian or Iranian proxy attacks against Americans became even more heightened. 

If Trump and Netanyahu are going for a regime change, it's not clear whether they have support inside Iran.

Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, explains how the Iranian people are feeling amid the escalating conflict.

Trump is considering a variety of options when it comes to Iran, including a possible U.S. strike on the country, multiple current and former administration officials said after he met with his national security team in the White House Situation Room.

Special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine and other military leaders were spotted leaving the White House after the meeting.

At a bus depot north of Tel Aviv, an Iranian ballistic missile that Israeli defenses failed to intercept exploded, leaving a large crater and burned-out vehicles.

Trump's Situation Room meeting with his national security advisers has wrapped, according to a White House official.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told reporters he is a "hell yes" on launching a pre-emptive strike on Iran to knock out its nuclear capabilities.

“I’ve been saying, 'Oh hell yes' for I think it’s almost six weeks," he said when he was asked on camera about whether he supports direct U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran war.

Fetterman said his primary concern is Iran’s acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“Bombing and destroying their nuclear facilities, that’s about peace," he said.

Fetterman also said he does not support the war powers resolution put forward by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., because he doesn’t want to limit Trump’s “ability to move and destroy the nuclear facility for Iran.”

The mother of one of the victims of an Iranian missile attack is seen in a photo being comforted during a funeral today in the northern Arab Israeli city of Tamra. The attack destroyed a three-story building in Tamra, killing four people.

Israel's Arab minority is about 20% of the country's population. Descendants of Palestinians who stayed in the country after 1948, they are Israeli citizens, but many identify with the Palestinian cause.

Massive internet issues due to cyberattacks are hitting Iran's banking system, the NBC News Tehran bureau reports.

Some ATMs are not giving money or are giving very little money, and debit cards are not working, according to an on-the-ground source.

Sepah Bank and Pasargad Bank have been hit with the cyberattacks and are working to resolve the issue, the source said.

The Israeli military said it has "completed a wave of strikes on missile launch and storage sites in the heart of Iran."

The Israeli air force targeted a dozen missile launch and storage sites "at the direction of the Intelligence Branch," the IDF said.

"These missiles were aimed at Israeli civilians," it said.

President Donald Trump's meeting in the Situation Room with national security advisers is underway, two White House officials tell NBC News.

Iran's new army chief said the operations his forces have conducted against Israel thus far were just a "deterrent warning," vowing that "punitive action will be carried out soon."

"Residents of the occupied territories especially Tel Aviv and Haifa are warned to leave these areas in order to preserve their lives," Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi said in televised statements.

Mousavi was appointed the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces after the Israelis killed his predecessor, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, last week.

NBC News' Tehran bureau reports that huge explosions are being heard in the Iranian capital.

This matches reports coming from state-run Nour News, which says continuous and loud explosions are being heard in western Tehran.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has teamed with congressional Democrats and introduced a resolution today to prohibit “United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

The bipartisan resolution is co-sponsored by prominent Democrats who often disagree with Massie on domestic issues, including Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

"The Constitution does not permit the executive branch to unilaterally commit an act of war against a sovereign nation that hasn’t attacked the United States,” Massie said in a statement. “Congress has the sole power to declare war against Iran. The ongoing war between Israel and Iran is not our war. Even if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution.”

Massie has, at times, been a Republican thorn in Trump’s side and is one of the few Republicans staunchly opposed to the president's proposed sweeping spending plan known as the “Big Beautiful Bill."

The text of what's being called the Massie-Khanna Iran War Powers Resolution can be read here.

Three aid workers with the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) were killed in Iran today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on X.

The ICRC said it was "deeply appalled" by the killings, adding that the workers were killed while "carrying out their humanitarian work."

The organization said a total of four IRCS personnel have been killed since Israel first attacked Iran on Friday, setting off back-and-forth airstrikes between the two countries.

"Humanitarian workers are trying tirelessly to meet the growing needs resulting from the latest escalation of this conflict," the ICRC said. "All efforts must be made to ensure their safety."

The Pentagon is moving more assets to the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Iran continues.

The move is more of a defensive posture but also brings significant offensive capabilities.

In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump said, "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran."

"Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured 'stuff,'" Trump wrote minutes ago. "Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA."

It is not clear if this means that the U.S. is intervening in the conflict between Israel and Iran. He previously said that the U.S. will not intervene.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said he was “deeply concerned” about Israel’s military actions against Iran.

The conflict has “sharply intensified tensions in the Middle East,” he said in a meeting today with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, according to a readout of the meeting from the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry.

“We oppose any actions that violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries,” Xi said. “Military conflict is not the solution to problems, and escalating regional tensions does not serve the common interests of the international community.”

Encouraging all parties to work to de-escalate the conflict, he added that China was willing to work with them “to play a constructive role in restoring peace and stability in the Middle East.”

Passengers who previously had their flights to Israel canceled will now be able to return, Israel's El Al airline said in a statement today.

After the country’s airspace was closed following the conflict with Iran, no airline was able to fly to and from the country.

But El Al said it got approval from the Israeli government to resume flights and starting tomorrow, planes will take off from airports in Cyprus, Greece; Italy and France.

These flights will be "operated gradually, subject to state approvals," the airline said.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told NBC News today that she and Trump are on the same page regarding the status of Iran's nuclear program after the president disputed her testimony before Congress earlier this year.

"What President Trump is saying is the same thing that I said in my annual threat assessment back in March in Congress. Unfortunately, too many people in the media don’t care to actually read what I said," Gabbard said.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump rejected Gabbard's testimony from March when she told lawmakers that the U.S. intelligence community believed Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon.

"I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having it," Trump said about Iran. Asked if she and Trump are on the same page, Gabbard replied, "Yes."

Sirens sounded across Israel, including the city of Tel Aviv, as the Israeli military announced it identified missiles launched from Iran “a short while ago.”

Israel's air force was "operating to intercept and strike where necessary to eliminate the threat,” the IDF said.

Home Front Command lifted its directive for residents to enter protected spaces about 15 minutes later.

Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility has been directly impacted by Israeli airstrikes, the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency said today.

Continual “analysis of high resolution satellite imagery” collected since Friday from the site in Ahmadabad in central Iran, led the nuclear watchdog to identify “additional elements that indicate direct impacts on the underground enrichment halls at Natanz,” the IAEA said on X.

The agency did not say if this resulted in any radiological changes in the area.

A banner of Iranian TV presenter Sahar Emami has been erected in Tehran's Veliasr Square this afternoon.

Emami was broadcasting live from the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran News Network yesterday when an Israeli strike hit its headquarters.

As debris fell around her, a visibly shaken Emami fled the studio.

Israel’s air force has conducted “a series of airstrikes” on western Iran, the country’s military said today.

“A number of sites and dozens of surface-to-surface missile launchers were struck,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement, adding that it also conducted “intelligence-based strikes on surface-to-air missile launch sites and radars embedded in western Iran.”

These were aimed at neutralizing launches aimed at Israel, the IDF said.

A massive plume of black smoke rose high into the sky after an Iranian missile penetrated Israel’s air defense system and struck a bus terminal in the city of Herzliya.

Officials said there were no casualties reported in the strike in the city, which is located to the north of Tel Aviv.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t said directly that regime change is the goal, but everything he is saying clearly indicates that, including his call for the Iranian people to rise up. 

Technically that is not the specific war aim. Earlier today, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that it was not the objective, that Israel did not want to occupy Iran or put boots on the ground. 

Like Lebanon, where Israel killed a large number of leaders from the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, Israel's military appears willing to take out targets if and when they see them. 

Although it wasn't official, Hezbollah was more or less the government in Lebanon. It ran the airports, the borders and it had the most powerful militia, making it more authoritative than the country's armed forces. 

In Iran, the regime is the real government, Israel appears to be talking about effectively decapitating the country's leadership along with the Revolutionary Guard — a significant military force with influence reaching deep into Iran’s power structure.

This will certainly mean a different kind of government if Israel can operate there at will militarily and that in my estimation, is regime change.  

While Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have called on residents of Tehran to evacuate, leaving the city might prove more difficult.

Iran's capital for more than 200 years, the city is home to around 9.5 million of the country’s 90 million-strong population, although there are more than 14 million people in the metro area.

Located at the foot of Mount Damavand, it is also home to the country's largest economic center and a base for basic industries, including automation, textiles and chemicals.

Many schools, universities, museums and theaters are also located in the city.

Israel’s Health MMinistry said 154 people were hospitalized overnight — all of them injured getting to shelters or suffering with anxiety.

None were directly injured by Iran’s latest round of retaliatory airstrikes, Shira Solomon, a ministry spokesperson, said in a statement.

Most of those in hospital, 130, were in a “mild condition,” 15 were undergoing evaluation and five were suffering from “anxiety,” Solomon said.

Iran’s attacks today were the lightest they’ve been so far, an Israeli military official said today, though he warned that the Islamic Republic was likely to maintain its offensive.

“This doesn’t mean that we won’t experience attacks anymore,” the military official said. “We still understand that there might be difficult nights that there might be large attacks against Israeli people.”

The official credited the reduced attacks to Israeli forces having neutralized much of Iran’s offensive capability during the early hours of its unprecedented campaign against Iran.

For the first night since Israel attacked Iran early Friday, there were no fatalities among Israeli citizens, emergency authorities have said.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Israel’s strikes on Iran are “a threat to people everywhere” and show that “there is no telling where the borders of this battleground will end.”

“Today, that world is in moral decline,” Abdullah said in an address to European Union lawmakers in Strasbourg, France. “A shameful version of our humanity is unfolding before our eyes in real time, and our global values are unraveling at a shocking pace with devastating consequences. Nowhere is that clearer than in Gaza.”

The monarch who has been criticized in some quarters for not doing enough to support Palestinians, who make up half of his population of 11.5 million, added that Israel’s war “defies international law, moral standards, and our common values.”

“If our global community fails to act decisively, we become complicit in rewriting what it means to be human,” he said. “And now with Israel’s expansion of its offensive to include Iran, there is no telling where the boundaries of this battleground will end. That, my friends, is a threat to people everywhere.”

Israel had “no choice” but to attack Iran because it was “rushing” to obtain nuclear weapons, the country's president said today.

Issac Herzog made the comments in an interview with NBC News' British broadcasting partner, Sky News, today, as both sides launched fresh strikes at each other.

An Iranian missile slipped through Israeli air defenses this morning and smashed into a bus terminal north of Tel Aviv.

The missile dug a deep crater in the upscale suburb of Herzliya and charred the area, where a video verified by NBC News showed firefighters dousing a bus that was on fire.

A massive smoke cloud was seen billowing from the terminal, which Deputy Police Commissioner Tzachi Sharab said would require “a bit more time until it is extinguished.”

There were no casualties, he said.

As the conflict continues to escalate, many Iranians are now rallying around the flag as explosions continue to rock the capital, Tehran, Mohammad Eslami, a research fellow at Tehran University, told NBC News.

“Most of the people, they aren’t criticizing the government because this war wasn’t started by the government, it was started by the Israelis,” he said, adding that many rejected coordinated efforts between the U.S. and Israel.

“The most important thing Iranians are thinking about the motherland,” he said.

Eslami, like many others, said he was planning to leave the city after hearing 10 explosions near his home overnight.

China has urges its citizens today to leave Israel “as soon as possible” via land borders as the conflict grows “more severe.”

The Chinese Embassy in Israel said in a statement that Israeli airspace was still closed, so it recommended that citizens cross over the northern border with Jordan.

Beijing has also urged both Israel and Iran to “continue to maintain close contact” with Chinese nationals and organizations and assist with their evacuation.

American ships have also been used to defend against Iranian missiles aimed at Israel, as well as ground-based interceptors, two U.S. officials confirmed to NBC News.

But they said the total number of U.S. interceptions has been relatively low so far.

A passenger on a flight over Saudi Arabia yesterday captured Iranian missiles launched toward Israel overnight.

Smoke trails are seen behind the missiles as they fly toward Israel, the video verified by NBC News showed. The camera pans to the in-flight entertainment panel in front of the passenger, showing the plane flying east toward Dubai.

Another passenger posted a similar video, in which more than a dozen shimmering missiles can be seen across the horizon. “They are ascending,” the person says in the video in Arabic.

President Donald Trump arrived back in Washington just before 5 a.m. ET after departing early from the Group of Seven summit in Canada to focus on the Israel-Iran conflict.

Speaking to reporters during the flight from Calgary, Alberta, Trump again disputed the assertion by French President Emmanuel Macron that he had left the G7 summit to work on a truce between the warring nations.

"We’re looking at better than a ceasefire,” said Trump, who has asked that the National Security Council be ready in the Situation Room, a U.S. official told NBC News.

Asked what would be better than a ceasefire, Trump said, “A real end. Not a ceasefire, an end.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he has directed the deployment of "additional capabilities" to U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility, which includes the Middle East.

"Protecting U.S. forces is our top priority and these deployments are intended to enhance our defensive posture in the region,” he said this morning in a post on X.

His comments came after two U.S. officials confirmed to NBC News that the Pentagon was expediting the deployment of an additional aircraft carrier and other ships to the Middle East.

The USS Nimitz and its attending ships, now in Asia, are being sent to the Middle East “without delay,” one of them said.

Traffic out of Tehran has eased, and most of those who intended to leave the Iranian capital to avoid Israeli missile strikes have already done so after spending hours stuck in traffic. Many have headed north, where they have homes or places along the Caspian Sea.

The atmosphere in the city is calm, although strange. Supermarkets are seeing a rush of customers, bakeries and grocery stores are packed. While essentials are still available, long lines are the norm even for basic items such as fruit.

Gas stations also remain busy, but the situation has improved compared with the chaos of recent days.For a nation of nearly 90 million people, life has shifted rapidly and visibly.

An Israeli airstrike targeted Farabi Hospital in the western city of Kermanshah, badly damaging its facilities, the Iranian Red Crescent said.

The person speaking in the video can be heard saying that a specialized ward and the hospital’s intensive care unit were severely damaged. Iranian media reported that several patients were injured in the attack.

Pakistan will not retaliate on Iran's behalf were it to be attacked by an Israeli nuclear weapon, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told the country's Parliament today.

Pakistan's nuclear deterrent capabilities are for its "own security and stability," he said.

His comments came after reports online that claimed Pakistan would attack Israel with a nuclear weapon if Iran were attacked.

Israel estimated to have around 90 nuclear weapons, although it has never publicly admitted this.

A “new and more powerful wave of missile strikes” has been fired toward Israel this morning, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard said in a statement via Iran's official IRNA news agency,

“Advanced capabilities used in the operation led to accurate hits on targets” despite “full American and Western support and the regime’s access to the latest defense technologies,” the statement said.

The IRGC did not provide details or evidence of the claim, but said the strikes would continue until they achieve "the complete dismantling " of the Israeli government.

Among the areas affected by Iranian missile strikes on Israel was Herzliya, a city north of Tel Aviv on Israel's central coast.

Israel said it had launched several “extensive” strikes overnight on military targets in western Iran.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it had struck surface-to-surface missile storage and launch infrastructure, as well as surface-to-air missile launchers and drone storage sites.

A black-and-white video released by the IDF appeared to show multiple sites being destroyed by Israeli strikes.

Yesterday, Israel attacked the Tehran headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster while it was live on air, calling it a “propaganda and incitement broadcasting authority” for the Iranian government. At least one employee was killed, Iranian state media reported, in what the Iranian foreign minister called a “wicked act of war crime.”

Israel’s air force said it had intercepted about 30 drones that Iran fired at Israel overnight, as the conflict between the two countries stretched into its fifth day with few signs of relenting.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard had said its drone and missile attacks against Israel would go on “continuously until dawn.”

Despite the threat, the night passed with Iran firing relatively fewer missiles — and subsequently with fewer casualties among Israelis — compared with the previous several days of back-and-forth air assaults.

Iran fired fewer than 10 missiles at Israel, setting off air raid sirens in the greater Tel Aviv area and the northern part of the country.

One missile hit an empty bus in central Israel, according to the area’s mayor, but there were no casualties. The Israel Defense Forces later said it was safe for residents to leave shelters across the country. 

Israel’s military said it had killed Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani, Iran’s most senior military commander, days after killing his predecessor.

The IDF said in a statement that Shadmani was killed in an overnight strike on a staffed command center “in the heart of Tehran” amid a “sudden opportunity.”

His death “adds to a series of eliminations of Iran’s most senior military leadership and degrades the chain of command of the Iranian armed forces,” the IDF said.

There was no immediate comment from Iran.

The IDF said Shadmani commanded both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian army, and was the closest figure to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was appointed by Khamenei after the death Friday of Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid.

Back-and-forth attacks between Israel and Iran continued into a fifth day, with Iranian state media reporting explosions and heavy air defense fire in Tehran and Israeli authorities saying missiles had been launched from Iran.

Three people were killed and four injured at a checkpoint in the Iranian city of Kashan, state media reported.

Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv after midnight; the Israeli military said it had intercepted about 30 drones, as well as most of the approximately 30 missiles launched by Iran. According to Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service, about 10 people were injured on their way to shelters.

The military advised the public in the morning local time that they could leave shelters across the country.

Trump said his early departure from the Group of Seven summit in Canada had “nothing to do” with a potential ceasefire between Israel and Iran, disputing assertions by French President Emmanuel Macron that the U.S. president had made a proposal.

“There is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a ceasefire and to then kick-start broader discussions,” Macron told reporters at the G7 summit in Canada.

Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform that Macron was wrong.

“He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that,” he said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier in a post on X that Trump was leaving the summit “because of what’s going on in the Middle East.”

The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and the embassy branch in Tel Aviv will remain closed for another day as military strikes between Israel and Iran continue, the State Department said.

U.S. government employees in Israel are being told to shelter in place even as some — including family and non-emergency employees — have been authorized to leave the country.

The diplomatic mission to Israel said it could not help Americans who want to leave, and it noted that Ben Gurion Airport and Israel’s seaports remained closed.

The State Department said U.S. citizens in Iran, with which Washington does not have diplomatic relations, “face serious, increasing dangers” and should depart immediately. If they are unable to do so, they should “be prepared to shelter in place for extended periods,” the department said. 

Trump and other leaders of the Group of Seven nations said that Israel has a right to defend itself and that Iran is the “principal source” of regional instability as they called for peace in the Middle East.

“Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” the group, which is meeting in Canada, said in a statement. “We have been consistently clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”

The group also affirmed “the importance of the protection of civilians” and called for a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the region, including a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. 

A White House official had told NBC News earlier that President Donald Trump would not sign the statement. The president is headed back to Washington after leaving the summit early to focus on the Israel-Iran conflict.

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