Escalation in Middle East Conflict as Airstrikes and Missile Fire Continue

PTI, April 6, 2026, Dubai: Israel and the United States carried out a wave of attacks on Iran on Monday, killing more than 25 people and hitting the South Pars natural gas field, and Iran responded with missile fire on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbours.

US President Donald Trump's deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz loomed as mediators circulated a new ceasefire proposal.

Explosions rang out in Tehran, and low-flying jets could be heard for hours as the capital was pounded.

Thick black smoke rose near the city's Azadi Square after one airstrike hit the grounds of the Sharif University of Technology.

Among those killed in one of the attacks on Tehran was the head of intelligence for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, according to Iranian state media and Israel's Defence Minister.

Another attack hit South Pars, the world's largest gas field shared by Iran and Qatar, Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency and other Iranian media reported, blaming both Israel and the US.

Neither immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the offshore field, which Israel hit earlier in the war.

After the earlier attack, Trump said Israel would not hit South Pars again, but at the same time warned that if Iran continued striking Qatar's energy infrastructure, the US would "massively blow up the entirety" of the field.

Iranian missiles hit the northern Israel city of Haifa, where four people were found dead in the rubble of a residential building.