Israel-Iran conflict live updates: Hypersonic missiles on full display as tensions escalate

As tensions escalate across the Middle East, Iran’s deployment of cutting-edge technology has captured international attention.

Welcome to our live coverage of the febrile situation in the Middle East.

Iran’s Supreme Leader has declared the “battle has begun” in his first public statement since US President Donald Trump said the US would spare him from assassination “for now.”

In a chilling threat, Iranian state TV has also warned of a “major surprise tonight”, one it claims the world will “remember for centuries”.

President Trump left the G7 meeting of wold leaders in Canada on Monday, local time, to return to Washington DC to deal with the unfolding crisis. On Tuesday, he chaired a meeting of his national security council.

In a series of social media posts, he called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender”.
He also wrote that the US knows where Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei apparently threatening to kill him.

“We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” he said, ominously.

This all comes as US bombers and refuelling planes have been positioning closer towards the Middle East.

Read on for live updates.

Originally published as Israel-Iran conflict live updates: Hypersonic missiles on full display as tensions escalate