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The Israeli military said on Sunday that Iran has launched a new barrage of missiles toward Israel.

It says sirens are alerting residents in areas under attack and air defences have been activated.

More details to follow.

Bahrain said on Sunday its air defences have intercepted 125 missiles and 211 drones since the Iran war began.

The small island nation, which is home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has been among the most affected by Iranian strikes, which have hit ports, a hotel, a refinery and a water desalination plant.

Similar in size to Singapore, it relies on US-made air defence systems. At least one person has been killed in the attacks.

A tanker was seen loading oil on Iran’s Kharg Island on Sunday, two days after the US struck military facilities there.

The vessel-tracking platform TankerTrackers said seven more tankers are seen at the anchorage.

Five had already loaded fuel oil, while two are waiting to load, according to satellite imagery. It wasn’t immediately clear who the tankers belong to.

The International Organisation for Migration said on Sunday that deteriorating conditions in Iranian cities were “driving increasingly complex mobility patterns.”

It says the destruction of homes and facilities that provide basic services are pushing many Iranians to northern provinces, where they think they could be safer.

The UN agency said people have been displaced to more than 20 provinces and that shelters were facing strain throughout Iran.

Iranians are also fleeing to neighbouring states, the agency said, including nearly 32,000 to Afghanistan and nearly 4,000 to Pakistan, even though airports and most border crossings — especially to Iraq — are closed.

A British minister on Sunday said it was essential to calm the situation in the Middle East after US President Donald Trump demanded that other nations help protect world oil supplies passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

The "plan now has to be to de-escalate the conflict", Energy Security Minister Ed Miliband told the BBC.

A spokesperson for the defence ministry said late on Saturday: "As we've said previously, we are currently discussing with our allies and partners a range of options to ensure the security of shipping in the region."

The Formula One grands prix in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been cancelled due to the United States' and Israel's war with Iran, motorsport's governing body the FIA announced on Saturday.

"It has been confirmed today that, after careful evaluations, due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East region, the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix will not take place in April," the FIA said in a statement.

On Sunday, it was announced that the Qatar MotoGP would also be postponed until 8 November. 

Iran’s Health Ministry says US and Israeli air strikes have killed 223 women and 202 children since the start of the war on 28 February, according to Mizan, the official Iranian judiciary news agency.

The Iranian Red Crescent has said that more than 1,300 people have been killed.

A US-Israeli attack early on Sunday morning targeted an impoverished residential neighbourhood in the southern city of Shiraz, Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA said.

The strike, which occurred southeast of the city, destroyed several housing units belonging to workers and people supported by the state welfare organisation, the report said.

It said a number of homes were destroyed and several people were injured. There were no reports of fatalities.

Switzerland says it refused permission for two overflights by US reconnaissance planes “in the context of the war in Iran.”

The government said late on Saturday that Switzerland’s neutrality law forbids overflights by parties to a conflict that have a military purpose in connection with that conflict.

But it does allow humanitarian and medical transit, as well as flights unconnected with the conflict.

Switzerland said it did give clearance for two US transport aircraft to fly over the country on Sunday and for a newly serviced plane to transit on Tuesday.

Israel's military said it has begun a broad wave of strikes on western Iran on Sunday, more than two weeks into the US-Israeli war against the Islamic republic.

"A short while ago, the IDF began a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in western Iran," the army said in a statement.

The United Arab Emirates’ Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh vows that the UAE can withstand the shock of the attacks that the Iranian regime unleashed on the Emirates which has absorbed more missiles and drones strikes than Israel since the war started.

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“This reflects a confused policy that missed the point, lost its direction, and lacked wisdom,” Anwar Gargash, adviser to the president of the United Arab Emirates, wrote on social media late on Saturday.

Gargash was referring to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s comments in which he accused the US of using the United Arab Emirates as a base for its attacks on Iran's Kharg Island.

Sirens sounded in Bahrain ahead of an assault on Sunday, while the United Arab Emirates reported a missile attack, urging residents to shelter in safe locations.

Saudi Arabia's Defence Ministry said its systems intercepted and destroyed 10 drones over the capital, Riyadh, and the kingdom’s eastern region.

Iran’s joint military command accused "the enemy” on Sunday of using copycat Iranian drones to attack neighbouring countries and pin the blame on Tehran, state media reported.

Iran usually uses “the enemy” as a reference to the United States and Israel.

The statement said copies of Iran's Shahed-136 drone, known as LUCAS, were used to hit “irrelevant targets in the regional states," including attacks on Turkey, Iraq and Kuwait. No evidence was provided.

The military command also said Iran openly shares its targets, which it describes as US and Israeli interests, and urged trust and cooperation from regional countries.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed on Sunday to target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the war with Israel and the United States continues.

"If this child-killing criminal is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force," the Guards said on their website Sepah News.

Eleven countries have requested Kyiv’s help in countering Shahed-type drones amid the Iran war and Tehran's ongoing attacks against the Gulf states, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday.

“There is clear interest in Ukraine’s experience in protecting lives, relevant interceptors, electronic warfare systems, and training,” Zelenskyy said.

For more on what countries in the Gulf can learn from Ukraine, you can read Sasha Vakulina’s full report below. 

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Russia is supplying Iran with Shahed drones to use in strikes against the United States and Israel, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN in an interview on Saturday.

Zelenskyy told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that it is "100% facts" that Iran has used Russian-made Shaheds to attack US bases.

Iran initially pioneered the ⁠Shahed, which was a much ‌cheaper ‌alternative to expensive missiles.

​They first ‌saw mass use in ‌Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, where thousands have been launched by Russian forces since ‌2022.

Although Iran initially ⁠provided ⁠the drones, Russia now manufactures its own.