Iran launched retaliatory strikes on Israel after Netanyahu said Israel began an operation to push back on Iran's "threat to Israel's very survival."

President Trump acknowledged on Thursday that there was a significant risk that Israel could soon attack Iran, but he said that “I don’t want them going in” at a moment when progress was being made toward an agreement to shut down Iran’s easiest pathway to building a nuclear weapon.

Two leading Iranian military figures are believed to have been killed as a result of the attack, raising fears of an all-out war in the Middle East

A Houthi source told Newsweek that any attack on Iran "will drag the entire region into the abyss of war" amid escalation tension.

Israel launched unprecedented strikes in response to what it perceives as an urgent threat posed by Tehran’s advancing nuclear program