War in the Middle East: latest developments

TEHRAN - US-Israeli strikes on Iran targeted a nuclear plant, a petrochemical hub, a trade terminal and a cement factory, Iranian media reported.

An attack near the Bushehr nuclear power station killed one of the facility's guards but caused no damage, the official IRNA news agency said. The UN's IAEA nuclear watchdog said no increased radiation levels had been detected. 

The strike happened just minutes before Russia started the evacuation of 198 more of its workers from the Bushehr plant, which it helped build and assists in operating. 

An attack on a petrochemical hub in the southwestern port city of Mahshahr wounded five people, the Fars news agency said.

Iranian media said a strike on a trade terminal in Khorramshahr, on the border with Iraq, killed one person. The ISNA news agency said the fatality was an Iraqi driver, and two Iranian workers were wounded. 

Another strike hit a cement factory in the southern port of Bandar Khamir, Tasnim news agency said. Iran's science minister, Hossein Simai Sarraf, said that "more than 30 universities" had been targeted since the war began.

- Ships through Hormuz -

An Indian-flagged LPG tanker transited through the Strait of Hormuz -- the latest of several vessels to make it through the Gulf chokepoint in recent days.

Turkey said a second Turkey-flagged ship also went through the strait. On Friday, tracking data showed one French-owned ship and one Japanese-owned vessel had passed through.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards also said on Saturday they targeted an Israel-linked ship in a drone attack in a Bahrain port, setting it on fire. They said the ship was called the MSC Ishyka.

- Israel tells Lebanese to evacuate -

Israel, which is simultaneously going after the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah in Lebanon, issued an "urgent warning" for residents in parts of the Lebanese city of Tyre and nearby areas to evacuate.

Earlier, Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli airstrikes in Tyre that wounded 11 people damaged several buildings, including a major hospital. 

- Italy PM talks energy -

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, on a visit to the Gulf, spoke with leader of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani about energy issues, and "possible measures to mitigate the shocks suffered", according to her office.

- Iraqi fighter killed -

An attack killed a fighter in the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in Iraq, near the Syria border, the former paramilitary coalition said, blaming a US-Israeli strike.

The PMF -- now part of Iraq's regular army but containing pro-Iran factions -- has been repeatedly targeted since the outbreak of war on February 28.

- Iran executions -

Iran executed two men convicted of membership in a banned opposition group and carrying out actions aimed at overthrowing the Islamic republic.

They were the latest in a series of executions targeting the banned People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). Four other members were executed earlier in the week. 

- Four injured in Bahrain -

Shrapnel from intercepted drones injured four people in Bahrain, authorities said. Separately, two buildings in Dubai were hit by debris, including one housing the US cloud computing firm Oracle, United Arab Emirates authorities said.

- Peacekeepers wounded -

Indonesia slammed as "unacceptable" an explosion that wounded three of its UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, just days after three other Indonesians were killed in separate incidents.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the blast occurred inside a UN facility near El Adeisse on Friday. Indonesia said there was an "urgent need to strengthen protection for UN peacekeeping forces".

A UN security official told AFP that Israeli forces had in 24 hours destroyed 17 surveillance cameras linked to UNIFIL's headquarters in southern Lebanon. The bodies of the three Indonesians arrived back in their home country on Saturday.

- Missiles fired at Israel -

The Israeli army said its air defences responded to missiles fired from Iran, which medics reported wounded one person.

Israel's emergency services said a 45‑year‑old man was treated for minor injuries from glass shrapnel in the central city of Bnei Brak.

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