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March 22, 2026, 01:00:15 (IST)
Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Tehran says new missile tactics will leave US and Israel ‘astonished’
Seyed Majid Mousavi, commander of Iran’s IRGC Aerospace Force, warned that the country’s “new tactics and launch systems” will leave the US and Israel astonished.
“From this moment, I declare the missile dominance of Iran’s sons [forces] over the skies of the occupied territories,” Seyed Majid Mousavi says on X. “The new tactics and launch systems” will leave the US and Israel “astonished”, he adds.
March 22, 2026, 00:55:40 (IST)
Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Drone attack targets US diplomatic facility near Baghdad airport: Report
A US diplomatic facility near Baghdad airport was targeted in a drone attack, according to security sources cited by Reuters.
March 22, 2026, 00:47:42 (IST)
Israel-Iran War Live Updates: G7 ready to act to protect global energy supplies, backs Hormuz Strait security
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven countries said on Saturday they stood ready to take necessary measures to support global energy supplies and reaffirmed the importance of safeguarding maritime routes, including in the Strait of Hormuz.
“We … express support to our partners in the region in the face of the unjustifiable attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies,” the ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the top EU diplomat, said in a statement.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the regime’s reckless attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, including energy infrastructure,” they said.
March 22, 2026, 00:47:59 (IST)
Israel-Iran War Live Updates: G7 demands ‘immediate and unconditional’ halt to Iran attacks
Top envoys for the Group of Seven advanced economies and the European Union on Saturday urged an “immediate and unconditional” end to Iran attacks against allies in the Middle East.
“We call for the immediate and unconditional cessation of all attacks by the Iranian regime,” the foreign ministers for Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as the EU foreign policy chief said in a joint statement.
March 22, 2026, 00:33:18 (IST)
Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Iran state TV says attack on Israel town a ‘response’ to strike on nuclear site
Iranian state TV said a missile attack on the Israeli town of Dimona, home to a nuclear facility, was a “response” to an earlier strike on its own nuclear site at Natanz.
Iran’s atomic energy organisation had said earlier in the day that the “Natanz enrichment complex was targeted this morning”, though there was “no leakage of radioactive materials reported”, according to a statement carried by local media.
The missile strike in Dimona wounded at least 39 people, according to Israeli emergency services.
March 22, 2026, 00:26:04 (IST)
Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Israel says struck Tehran facility used for making nuclear components
The Israeli military said Saturday that its forces had struck a facility embedded within a Tehran university that was allegedly being used to develop components for nuclear weapons.
“The Malek-Ashtar University facility was utilised by the Iranian terror regime’s military industries and ballistic missiles array to develop nuclear weapon components and weapons,” the military said.
“The Malek-Ashtar University was subordinate to the Iranian Defence Ministry, and is sanctioned internationally due to its activities and efforts over the years to advance the Iranian nuclear program and to develop ballistic missiles,” the military added.
