Explosions hit Tehran, Saudi shuts biggest refinery after drone strike

The U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran expanded on Monday with no end in sight, engulfing Lebanon with Israel responding to strikes by Hezbollah, while Tehran fired missiles and drones at Israel, Gulf states and a British air base in far-away Cyprus. The U.S. military said Kuwait’s air defences had mistakenly shot down three American F-16 fighters during an Iranian attack. All six crew members were safely recovered. Video, the location of which was verified by Reuters, showed one of the planes spiralling out of the sky, an engine lit up in flames, until it hit the ground and exploded in a fireball.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said their missile attacks have targeted the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the headquarters of the Israeli air force commander. It said Kheibar missiles were used in the attack. As per reports,Fifteen US aircraft have left the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spains on Iran, maps by flight ⁠tracking website FlightRadar24 showed. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Spain would not allow its military ‌bases, which are jointly operated by the US and Spain but ⁠under Spanish sovereignty, to be used for attacks on Iran, which Spain has condemned. At least seven of the aircraft were shown ​on FlightRadar24as having landed at Ramstein Air Base in ‌Germany. Saudi Arabia shut its biggest refinery Aramco  after drone strikes caused a fire there, one of a number of oil installations that became targets. A Saudi defense ministry spokesman said two drones had targeted the refinery, Saudi Arabia’s biggest and one of the world’s largest, and been intercepted, according to a statement posted by the Saudi Press Agency on X.

Another view of Saudi Arabia's Aramco oil refinery following Iranian stoke: pic.twitter.com/erBJkRPDLj

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Qatar Energy, one of the world’s top natural gas producers, announced it had halted production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and associated products.The Gulf state is one of the world's top liquefied natural gas producers, alongside the United States, Australia and Russia. Qatar shares the world's largest natural gas reservoir with Iran.
Iran's security chief said the Islamic republic was prepared for its war with the United States and Israel to last for a long period of time. "Iran, unlike the United States, has prepared itself for a long war," said Ali Larijani, the powerful head of Tehran's Supreme National Security Council, in a post on X.
The latest drone strike added to a wave of attacks on the Gulf, including on Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Manama, and Oman’s commercial part of Duqm. The strikes have paralyzed major shipping hubs in the United Arab Emirates and Oman and sent Brent crude futures LCOc1 surging roughly 10 percent on Monday.