LIVE UPDATES: Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has vowed to avenge the country’s ‘martyrs’ as a US military aircraft goes down over Iraq amid Operation Epic Fury.
Madeline Cove
RECAP: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Motjaba Khamenei’s first statement since his appointment has been read on State TV.
Katherine Kraayvanger and Max Corstorphan
LATIKA M BOURKE: Former foreign minister Alexander Downer says Anthony Albanese’s early support for Donald Trump’s war with Iran was a calculated political move.
Latika M Bourke
RECAP: A falling drone has hit Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, injuring four people, as the death toll from Israel’s attacks on Lebanon continues to rise.
Katherine Kraayvanger, Ava Martin and Max Corstorphan
US President Donald Trump has given a major update on Operation Epic Fury, revealing new details about nuclear attack threats and his goal in Iran, something he says is near.
Max Corstorphan
Australia has deployed an advanced E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft and air-to-air missiles to the Gulf as Iran’s retaliatory attacks intensify, with Anthony Albanese insisting the move is purely defensive.
Caitlyn Rintoul and Katina Curtis
The US President phoned Anthony Albanese overnight, urging Australia to grant asylum to Iran’s women’s soccer team — before praising the Prime Minister for stepping in.
Latika M Bourke and Caleb Runciman
Iranians in Australia are urging western nations not to turn their backs on guaranteeing freedom for their relatives living under a brutal regime.
Tess Ikonomou
NATO member Turkey says a ballistic missile launched from Iran was neutralised by the military alliance's defence systems while entering Turkish airspace.
Staff Writers
RECAP: Two members of the Iranian female soccer team have decided to stay behind in Australia while the rest of the squad jetted off back to Iran.
Fraser Williams, Max Corstorphan and Maddie Cove
Australia is considering a request for military assistance from Persian Gulf nations, as one senior Albanese government figure has privately forecast the future of the war.
Andrew Greene
Israel has warned Lebanon it needs to rein in Iran-backed Hezbollah as it pounded the group’s strongholds with air strikes and mounted a deadly airborne raid.
‘Certain death’: Donald Trump has issued a dire warning for Iran after they said surrender was a ‘dream’ the US would ‘take to their graves’.
Matt Shrivell
Iran’s president has said strict demands of surrender by the US are a ‘dream that they should take to their grave’.
Jon Gambrell, Sam Mednick and Samy Magdy
The Israeli military has launched ‘a broad-scale wave of strikes’ on Iranian Government infrastructure, with reports that the attack had hit the area near Mehrabad Airport in Tehran.
Emmett Lindner, David E. Sanger, Farnaz Fassihi and Liam Stack
The White House has earned the ire of one of Hollywood’s biggest names after they used a clip from the movie Tropic Thunder to glorify war efforts in the Middle East.
One week into the US-Israel war on Iran, Donald Trump says America is now ‘respected’ more than ever as the US release stunning figures on the scale of the attacks.
Iran is about to be ‘hit very hard’, President Donald Trump says, as the US considers targeting new areas and groups "because of Iran's bad behaviour".
Maya Gebeily, Humeyra Pamuk and Pesha Magid
RECAP: US forces have struck an Iranian Navy vessel and warn that strikes on Iran to ‘surge dramatically’
Amy Cavender, Max Corstorphan and Matt Shrivell
President Donald Trump has given a blunt update on the war with Iran, saying Iranians now have just two choices.
Iran’s barrage of retaliatory strikes is a wake-up call for countries that have pretended the Russian-Ukraine conflict was a faraway concept.
The CIA is providing arms to Kurdish forces as President Donald Trump says the US military will shadow their ground forces to facilitate an uprising in Iran.
RECAP: The internet blackout in Iran has reached its fifth day as explosions are reported in Tehran and Azerbaijan.
Katherine Kraayvanger, Eloise Budimlich, Max Corstorphan and Matt Shrivell
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called for middle powers to unite amid an increasingly fractured world order in a highly-anticipated address to Australia’s Parliament.
Caitlyn Rintoul
