US-Iran war updates: Chris Bowen cuts fuel stock obligations, Trump hints at war escalation in new threat

The Israel Defense Forces has vowed to continue its attack on Iran.

“Strikes against the Iranian terror regime continue,” the IDF began its video post on X.

The IDF shared the update alongside a map with pins outlining details of attacks on underground facilities, bases and command centres across the country in Shiraz, Tehran and Ahvaz.

Explosions have been heard in Tehran as the Israel Defense Forces confirms it has launched fresh strikes on the Iranian capital.

“We just begun a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime across Tehran,” the IDF said in a post to Telegram.

The comments come after a number of explosions were reported in and near the city.

The Israeli military says it has destroyed a bridge on the Litani River in Lebanon’s south..

The IDF’s Arabic spokesman posted on X that the destroyed bridge, located in the village of Zrariyeh, had been used by Hezbollah fighters.

Their military also said Hezbollah forces near the bridge had fired rockets into Israel during the current conflict.

A drone was shot down while attempting to approach the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh, the Saudi Defence Ministry has reported.

A Defence spokesman said air defences had shot down eight more drones in the central and eastern regions of the country.

In a post shared on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump has declared that the USA is “totally destroying” Iran’s regime.

The US leader told his fans to “watch what happens”, a potential sign of an escalation in the conflict.

“Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time - Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,” the post read.

Trump also went on to say it was his “great honour” to be killing members of the Iranian regime.

“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”

Two people have been killed in Oman after a drone was downed in the Sohar province, according to the nation’s government media department.

The agency cited a security source who said the drone made impact in the al-Awahi industrial area, killing two and injuring others.

It has been reported that both individuals killed were foreign nationals.

Israel’s military has hit more than 200 targets in western and central Iran in the past day, including missile launchers and defence systems.

It said fighter jets carried out “20 wide-scale strikes” targeting “ballistic missile launchers, defense systems and weapon production sites”.

Two people have been killed and three wounded in an Israeli attack on an apartment in Bar Elias in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, according to the National News Agency.

It said the attack had targeted an official of the Islamic Group, critically wounding the man and killing his two sons.

Hospitals are on alert after an Iranian-linked cyber militia claimed responsibility for hacking a major US medical equipment supplier used by health services across Australia.

The hacker group known as Handala announced that it had breached systems belonging to Stryker, a Fortune 500 company which manufactures and supplies critical medical and surgical equipment to hospitals around the world.

The group, believed to have links to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Cyber Security, said the attack was carried out in retaliation for a US Tomahawk missile strike on an elementary school.

It reportedly killed 165 people, most of them children.

In a statement posted on X, Handala labelled Stryker a “Zionist-rooted corporation” and claimed it had wiped 200,000 systems, servers and devices while stealing about 50 terabytes of data.

Health officials in Victoria and New South Wales said that to date there had been no disruption to hospitals or medical services in Australia.

Nationals leader Matt Canavan has welcomed Labor’s commitment to release 100 million litres of lower grade petrol.

But he said it would likely make little difference to the crisis.

“I’m glad the Government has finally stopped blaming Australians for the fuel supply crisis,” he said.

“But this release (100 million litres) is less than a day’s use of fuel, so I’m not sure that’s going to last very long.

“I just would hope that the Government here stops telling fibs to the Australian people.”