Iran US war news highlights: Loud blasts near US embassy in Norway; Iran oil facility in flames after Israeli strikes

An Iranian strike in Bahrain's capital Manama caused fire and damage to a house and nearby buildings, the country's interior ministry said in a post on X.

Turkey’s military is considering the deployment of F-16 warplanes in northern Cyprus to bolster the defences of the self-declared Turkish Cypriot state, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg, amid a growing military buildup on the island as a result of the Iran war.

The Turkish jets are expected to be deployed in the next few days, the people said, speaking Saturday on condition of anonymity. The move is part of phased plans to bolster the security of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, according to the people.

A strike targeted a military base belonging to the former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi in northern Iraq on Saturday, two Hashed sources told AFP.

"An airstrike, likely American, hit a Hashed base south of the city of Mosul," an official said. Another source confirmed the strike took place.

The Hashed al-Shaabi, or the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), is an alliance of factions now integrated into the regular army that also includes powerful Iran-backed groups.

The Israeli military says it has attacked the “central air defence command centre” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force, “In the heart of Tehran.”

It said it struck air defence systems, headquarters, warehouses and other structures near the centre.

It added that it also hit a site used to produce and launch ballistic missiles, which it claimed included warehouses for Quds Force combat equipment.

President Donald Trump on Saturday will join grieving families at Dover Air Force Base on Saturday at the dignified transfer for the six U.S. soldiers killed in the war in the Middle East.

The dignified transfer, a ritual that returns the remains of U.S. service members killed in action, is considered one of the most sombre duties of any commander in chief. During his first term, Trump said bearing witness to the transfer was “the toughest thing I have to do” as president.

Iran's hardline judiciary chief said the Islamic Republic would continue targeting regional neighbours, offering its enemies "points... used in aggression against our country".

"Evidence from Iran's armed forces shows that the geography of some countries in the region is openly and covertly at the disposal of the enemy," said Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, who is also a member of the interim leadership council.

"The heavy attacks on these targets will continue," he added.

Iran's Assembly of Experts will meet in one day to choose the country's next Supreme Leader, Reuters reported.

An Emirati official said that the United Arab Emirates wanted the Iranian aggression against non-combatant states, the Gulf states, to end immediately.

“Any sort of escalation is worrying. We want to contain the war. We don’t want the war to expand. We want to start with the Iranians realising that they are not helping themselves by attacking their whole neighbourhood, and to stop there and realise that,” the official told Reuters

Several explosions were heard on Saturday in the Qatari capital Doha, AFP reported, as Iran continued its retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.

Sirens were also heard sounding in central Doha.

The UAE's air defences are currently dealing with incoming missile and drone threats from Iran, its ministry of defence said.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the sounds heard in scattered areas of the country are the result of the air defence systems intercepting ballistic missiles, and fighter jets intercepting drones and loitering munitions.

“UAE air defences are currently responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran. MOD asserts that the sounds heard are the result of the Air Defence Systems intercepting missiles and drones,” it said on X.

The UAE has reported new Iranian drone and missile attacks, according to AFP, with loud explosions heard in Dubai.

An Iranian military spokesperson has warned that any US ships entering the Gulf will end up at the bottom of the sea, Al Jazeera reported.

It comes after Trump said earlier this week the US Navy would begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as possible”.

Loud explosions were heard Saturday in Bahrain's capital Manama, two AFP journalists reported, as Iran continued its retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.

One of the journalists said they heard at least five blasts in the city.

US President Donald Trump said on a scale of 0 to 10, the progress of his country’s campaign against Iran so far is 15.

The war on Iran is “a service that we’re providing, not for the Middle East but for the world”, Trump said.

“These were sick people, very sick people,” he said of those killed in US-Israeli attacks so far.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the US forces “knocked out” 42 Iranian Navy ships in 3 days,

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States on Saturday of attacking a desalination plant on a Gulf island, saying it had set a precedent.

"The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island," said Araghchi in a post on X.

"Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran."

Sri Lanka will repatriate the bodies of the Iranian sailors who were killed on IRIS Dena, the first Iranian ship that was torpedoed by the US, the Deputy Defence Minister said on Saturday.

Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it had recovered 84 bodies of Iranian sailors after the US submarine attack sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off Galle on the island's southern coast.

The ship had been returning to Iran from Visakhapatnam, India, where it had participated in a naval fleet review exercise.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on X that his country stands firm “to the last breath in defence of our country and resist.”

“Iran's defensive operations are exclusively against targets and facilities that are the origin and source of aggressive actions against the Iranian nation, and we consider them legitimate targets,” he said.

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian has said in an X post that the Islamic Republic of Iran has always emphasised the preservation and continuation of friendly relations with the governments of the region based on good neighbourliness and mutual respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

“This does not negate Iran's inherent right to defend itself against military aggression by the United States and the Zionist regime,” he added.

The Iranian parliament's National Security Committee has issued a statement saying that the “war with our enemies" will go on till the killing of the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "is avenged".

Authorities in Bahrain have said that sirens have been activated.

“Citizens and residents are urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place,” the Interior Ministry said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said its forces had targeted a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker on Saturday in the Gulf as the war with Israel and the United States raged.

"An oil tanker with the trade name 'Louise P' with the flag of the Marshall Islands, one of the assets of the terrorist America, was hit by a drone in the middle of the Persian Gulf," the Guards said on their website Sepah News.

The Israeli military has said that missiles were launched from Iran towards Israel.

In a statement on X, the Israeli army said it had identified missiles heading towards Israeli territory and that interception systems were being activated.

Hezbollah said it carried out two attacks targeting Israeli positions on Saturday.

In separate statements, Hezbollah said it launched a missile barrage at the Tzrifin base east of the Israeli city of Acre at 9:45am local time.

Hezbollah also said its fighters fired rockets at a gathering of vehicles near the Fatima Gate crossing in the Lebanese border town of Kfar Kila at 12:30pm local time.

The group said the attacks were carried out in response to what it described as Israeli strikes across Lebanon.

The deputy head of Iranian President Mahmoud Pezeshkian’s office said his message was “clear”:

“If countries in the region do not cooperate in the US attack on Iran, we will not attack them,” he said on the President's remarks.

“Iran will never submit to coercion. Our powerful armed forces will give a decisive response to any aggression from US bases in the region,” he added.