LIVE | Iran says US and Israeli attacks caused 'severe damage' to critical water and energy infrastructures

Iran's critical water and energy infrastructures have suffered heavy damage due to U.S. and Israeli attacks, the country's energy minister said Sunday.

"The country's vital water and electricity infrastructure has suffered severe damage following terrorist and cyber attacks by the United States and the Zionist regime," Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi was quoted as saying by ISNA news agency.

"The attacks targeted dozens of water transmission and treatment facilities and destroyed parts of critical water supply networks," he said, adding that efforts were underway to repair the damage.

One person was killed in northern Israel by a rocket fired from Lebanon, Israeli rescuers and the Israeli army announced Sunday. The attack was claimed by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement.

Several explosions were heard in Jerusalem after the Israeli army warned of incoming missiles launched from Iran toward central Israel, AFP journalists reported. At first no injuries were reported.

In addition, Israel announced a new wave of strikes against targets in Tehran and claimed to have attacked a university center in the capital because it was "used by the regime's military industries (...) and by the ballistic missile device to develop nuclear components and weapons."

Six people were killed in a helicopter crash in the Qatari territorial waters and one person is missing, the Qatari Interior Ministry said on X.

One hour earlier, the ministry said the crash was caused by a "technical failure"during a "routine flight." After the crash, the ministry said it was caused by a "technical failure" during a routine flight.

"It's a very difficult night in the battle for our future," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared. "We are determined to keep hitting our enemies on all fronts."

At least 100 people were injured Saturday night in the southern Israeli town of Arad, six of them seriously, after an Iranian attack, according to the latest provisional balance sheet from rescue services.

Shortly before that, the city of Dimona which hosts nuclear facilities was also hit by a missile. Israeli rescue teams reported about 30 wounded in that city. Iran claimed the launch in "response" to an "enemy" attack on the Natanz nuclear complex in the center of the country.

Saudi Arabia, which like the other Gulf monarchies suffers attacks from Iran, on Saturday ordered the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat and three members of his team.

The United Arab Emirates announced Saturday that it had been targeted by Iranian shells, after Tehran warned it would be attacked in the event of offensives against disputed islands in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz.

The Islands of Abu Musa and Greater Tunb, under Iranian control, are claimed by the United Arab Emirates and have long been a source of dispute between the two countries.

For its part, Saudi Arabia announced that it had detected three ballistic missiles headed for its capital. One was intercepted and two others fell in uninhabited areas.

A U.S. diplomatic and logistics center at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq was attacked eight times overnight, an Iraqi security official said Sunday, in the midst of the Middle East war.

"Eight separate attacks, carried out until dawn with rockets and drones, targeted" the U.S. hub of the airport, a senior security official told AFP. "Some rockets fell in the vicinity of this base," he said.

The Iranian military warned that it will attack energy and desalination infrastructures in the Gulf region, after the U.S. president threatened to annihilate the Islamic republic's energy plants if it does not quickly open the Strait of Hormuz.

"All energy, information technology and desalination infrastructures belonging to the United States" in the region will be targeted, the spokesman for Jatam al Anbiya, Iran's military operational command, said in a statement carried by Fars news agency.