Iran threatens to ‘rain fire’ on American ground troops

Iran’s nationwide internet blackout entered its 30th consecutive day on Sunday, leaving millions cut off from global communication since the war with the United States and Israel began.

Internet monitoring group NetBlocks said connectivity to the outside world remains almost entirely severed.

‘Metrics show that connectivity to the outside world remains at just 1% of ordinary levels,’ the group wrote on X.

While Iran’s domestic intranet continues to function, allowing access to local messaging apps, banking platforms, and other internal services, access to the global internet has been heavily restricted.

The kingdom’s Defence Ministry says air defence systems have intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile heading towards the country’s Eastern province.

An Israeli air strike that targeted the town of Shaqra in southern Lebanon has killed five people.

According to the National News Agency, the attack has also wounded two others.

IRGC Aerospace Force commander Majid Moosavi warned on Sunday that retaliation for attacks on Iran’s infrastructure was underway and would target what he described as chemical, oil, and metals industries linked to US-Israeli interests in the region.

‘Retaliation for attacks on Iran’s infrastructure is being carried out through the destruction of strategic industries linked to the US-Israeli enemy in the region,’ he wrote on X.

‘So far, a chemical industry in the occupied territories, a refinery, two steel complexes and two major aluminum complexes have been hit, and these painful attacks will continue until we see the pain in your eyes,’ he added.

US President Donald Trump said the United States was already taking control of the Strait of Hormuz, Israel’s Channel 14 correspondent said on X, citing an interview with the president on Sunday.

‘Yes, sure, it’s already happening,’ he said when asked whether the US could take control of the waterway.

He added that he believes Iran ‘badly’ wants a deal.

‘I think they want to do very badly. Anybody would want a deal if you are getting decimated, right?’ he said.

Bahrain’s interior ministry said on Sunday that warning sirens had been activated and urged citizens and residents to ‘remain calm and head to the nearest safe place.’

An Israeli artillery barrage has targeted the headquarters of the UN’s peacekeeping contingent in southern Lebanon.

Indonesian forces were hit on the base in Adshit al-Qusayr, in the Marjayoun district, reported Lebanon’s National News Agency.

Broadcaster Al Jadeed News reported there were casualties, and helicopters are transporting the wounded.

The Israeli military says it dropped more than 120 munitions at sites used for research, development, and production of weaponry in Tehran today.

The facilities attacked included one where ballistic missiles were developed, a complex used by the Revolutionary Guard for research and development of ballistic missile systems and various types of satellite launchers, and a research, development, and production site for weaponry of the Iranian army.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran’s heavy-water production plant at Khondab, which Israel attacked on March 27, has ‘sustained severe damage and is no longer operational’.

In a post on X, the IAEA added that the plant ‘contains no declared nuclear material’.

The Israeli military had described the site as a ‘key plutonium production site for nuclear weapons’ when it attacked the facility on Friday.

That same day, the IDF also launched strikes on a uranium processing site in the central Iranian city of Yazd, describing the site as a ‘unique facility in Iran used for the production of raw materials required for the uranium enrichment process’.

Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israel to widen its invasion of Lebanon as he claimed Hezbollah still has the ability to ‘fire rockets at us’.

Israel has sent troops into the south of Lebanon as it seeks to destroy the Iranian-backed terror group, who dragged the country into the war by sending a barrage of missiles at Israel in revenge for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In response Israel began ‘limited and targeted ground operations’ which it claimed have been targeting ‘key Hezbollah strongholds’ to remove their threat for Israeli border communities.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused the US and Israel of believing ‘knowledge can be bombed away’.

‘It’s reflected in the murders of Iran’s scientists and attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, and now universities,’ he said on X.

He added that their actions would only inspire more pursuit of knowledge.