It’s not clear what role the Trump administration played in securing Almadi’s freedom [GETTY]
Iran targeted countries across the Middle East with a fresh torrent of missiles on Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump signalled tentative progress in diplomatic efforts to end the war.
Iran fired a salvo of “precision-guided” missiles and drones at Israel and bases hosting US forces in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, the country’s Revolutionary Guards said early Wednesday.
Trump, whose daily statements on the war have swung wildly from threatening to conciliatory, said Washington was “in negotiations right now” with Tehran.
He told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran had given him “a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money”, which he said demonstrated that “we’re dealing with the right people”.
Tehran has thrown cold water over Trump’s statements, downplaying any progress in US-Iran talks.
The Israeli military on Wednesday announced it had struck a naval cruise missile production facility operating under Iran’s ministry of defence in Tehran.
“In recent days, the Israeli air force acting on [Israeli army] intelligence struck two key naval cruise missile production sites in Tehran,” the military said.
Meanwhile, at least six people were killed at least six people in a town and a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Sidon area, and three more in another town, Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) said four people were killed in an “Israeli enemy raid” on the town of Adloun, and another two in a strike on an apartment in the Mieh Mieh refugee camp that left four wounded.
In another area of southern Lebanon, the NNA earlier said an Israeli raid on the town of Habboush killed at least three people and wounded 18 others.
