Iran on Tuesday night struck Tel Aviv, Israel with missiles carrying cluster warheads in retaliation for the assassination of its security chief Ali Larijani.
Iranian state television reported this on Wednesday, saying the attack killed two people in a neighbourhood close to densely populated Tel Aviv, where there are also key military facilities, bringing the death toll in Israel from the war to at least 14.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a statement, said weapons used included Khorramshahr 4 and Qadr missiles, both with multi-warheads.
Meanwhile, Israel claims Iran has repeatedly used cluster warheads, which disperse into multiple smaller explosives mid-air and spread over a wide area, making them difficult to intercept.
In Iran, a projectile hit an area near the Bushehr nuclear power plant on Tuesday evening but caused no damage or injuries, Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA.
IAEA chief, Rafael Grossi, reiterated his call for maximum restraint during the conflict to avoid the risk of a nuclear accident.
Israel and the US have said preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapons programme was one of the goals of the attacks they launched more than two weeks ago, which killed the country’s supreme leader and many other top officials.
The Iranian government on Tuesday confirmed the killing of Larijani, the most senior figure targeted since the US-Israeli war’s first day, when an Israeli strike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, which Larijani led as secretary, said Larijani’s son and his deputy, Alireza Bayat, were also killed in an Israeli attack on Monday night.