Israel struck Iranian natural gas facilities linked to the offshore South Pars field as part of ongoing air operations, while Iran launched retaliatory cluster missile attacks against central Israel overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. The Iranian strikes killed two people — a couple in their 70s — in the Ramat Gan area near Tel Aviv, with falling shrapnel injuring additional civilians and causing property damage including at a Tel Aviv train station. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the strikes were carried out as revenge for Israel's assassination of senior security official Ali Larijani.

Iran followed the overnight attack with a second wave of missile strikes on central Israel on Wednesday, even as it faced continued US and Israeli air operations on its territory. Israeli and US strikes hit multiple sites inside Iran, including a judiciary facility in the southern city of Larestan, killing and injuring civilians and judicial staff. Other strikes killed seven people in the city of Dorud and four more in the rural Chegeni region, according to Iran's Tasnim news agency.

The conflict has now entered its third week following what sources describe as a US and Israeli campaign against Iran. Among the highest-profile casualties is Ali Larijani, Iran's security chief, whose assassination Israel carried out and whose funeral was held in Tehran on Wednesday alongside that of Gholamreza Soleimani, head of Iran's Basij paramilitary force. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also claimed that overnight strikes killed Iran's intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, though Tehran had not confirmed the report as of Wednesday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran informed it that a projectile struck the premises of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday, though the agency reported no damage to the facility and no injuries. Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency amid what Iranian authorities described as a crackdown on alleged collaborators. The strikes on South Pars, one of the world's largest natural gas fields, rattled global energy markets.

US President Donald Trump escalated the rhetoric further by threatening to destroy Iran's South Pars gas field if Iran retaliated against Qatar following Israel's attack on the site. Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth held a press briefing Wednesday at a moment the department described as significant escalation, though access to the briefing was restricted under new press conditions Hegseth implemented earlier this year that several major news outlets had declined to accept.