MBABANE: Israel says it has conducted air strikes against Iran, with its military saying it hit sites in several areas of the country early on Saturday, the British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) reported.
“The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Israeli aircraft struck military facilities including air defence batteries and missile manufacturing facilities used to produce weapons, adding that the strikes would provide the IDF “broader freedom of aerial action" in future.Iranian state media reported several explosions in and around the capital, Tehran.Israeli retaliation for an Iranian barrage of almost 200 ballistic missiles fired towards Israel on 1 October had been widely expected for weeks”, reads the BBC report.

Tehran at sunrise on Saturday morning, following Israeli strikes on sites around the Iranian capital(BBC).