Iran-US war live: Missiles fired at UK’s Diego Garcia base as Tehran nuclear site reportedly targeted

The foreign ministers of the G7 have said they are prepared to take necessary measures to support global energy as they condemned Iran’s “unjustifiable attacks” against civilians and civilian infrastructure.

In a statement, they said: “We … express support to our partners in the region in the face of the unjustifiable attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the regime reckless attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, including energy infrastructure,” they added.

Ministers reaffirmed the importance of safeguarding maritime routes, including in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Group of Seven includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Some 39 people have been left injured after an Iranian drone attack in Dimona, Israel.

Magen David Adom said casualties included a 10 year old boy in serious conditions, a woman in her 30s in moderate conditions, and 37 people left with mild injuries.

The Independent’s Holly Evans reports:

Tehran directed two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands but neither hit. One of the missiles wasreportedly shot down by a US warship, while the other failed in flight.

On Saturday, the minitry of Defence condemned the attack as “reckless”.

Diego Garcia is around 2,360 miles away from Iran and home to an airbase capable of accommodating long-range US bombers, with around 2,500 American troops based on the island.

The UK has agreed to cede sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius and lease back the base, in a move that has strained relations with Washington in recent months.

Diego Garcia is strategically valuable to the US, and has been used as a launchpad for operations in the Middle East for years, with Donald Trump describing the deal as a “big mistake”.

US-based rights group HRANA said on Friday that 3,220 people have been killed. It said 1,398 of those were civilians, including at least 210 children.

The latest figures reported by state media put the toll at 1,270 people.

Lebanese authorities claim that around 1,024 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since 2 March. The World Health Organisation and Lebanese health authorities said more than 100 of those killed were children.

In Iraq, at least 60 people have been killed, according to authorities.

Fifteen civilians have been killed, including nine people in an Iranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on 1 March 1, according to Israel’s ambulance service.

The Israeli military said two of its soldiers were also killed in southern Lebanon.

Four Palestinian women were also killed in an Iranian missile attack in the occupied West Bank.

There have been 13 service members killed since the US launched an attack on Iran.

Six were confirmed dead after a US. military refuelling aircraft crashed over Iraq, the US military said, while seven others have been killed in action during operations against Iran.

Eight people have been killed in Iranian attacks, including two army soldiers, according to the UAE defence ministry.

Authorities have reported six deaths, including two people killed in Iranian attacks, two interior ministry officers and two army soldiers.

Four people were killed when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on February 28, state news agency SANA said.

Two people were reported killed on 13 March in a drone strike on an industrial zone in Sohar province, marking the first fatalities inside the country, which had been hosting mediation talks between the U.S. and Iran. One person died earlier when a projectile hit a tanker off the coast of Muscat, the vessel’s manager said.

Two people were killed when a projectile fell on a residential location in Al-Kharj city, southeast of the capital Riyadh.

Two people were killed in two separate Iranian attacks, with the most recent hitting a residential building in the capital Manama, according to the interior ministry.

One French soldier was killed and six others were wounded after a drone attack in northern Iraq, where they were providing counterterrorism training.

The foreign secretary has said the UK is taking “a different view from the US and Israel” will not be involved in offensive action against Iran, despite the missile attack on Diego Garcia.

Yvette Cooper said the government is supporting defensive action against “reckless Iranian threats”.

She told broadcasters: “We have continued to support defensive action to support UK interests, including defensive action against ballistic missile threats.

“But we want to see as swift as possible a resolution to this conflict.

“Our approach to this conflict has been the same throughout.

“We were not and continue not to be involved in offensive action, and we’ve taken a different view from the US and Israel on this.

“But we are supporting defensive action to support our interests. That includes recognising Iran’s escalating threats to international shipping, as well as their threats to our Gulf partners.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it has struck air bases in Kuwait and the UAE which it says are used by the US and Israel.

IRGC Navy commander Alireza Tangsiri said it “pounded the facilities of the two Al-Minhad and Ali Al-Salem air bases, the hangars, and the fuel depots of American-Zionist aircraft with a massive volume of ballistic missiles and suicide drones.”

He said the sites were the origin of the aggression against Iran, and they had prepared the grave of aggressor child killers”.

Keir Starmer has spoken to the president of Cyprus to confirm that RAF Akrotiri will not be used for offensive military actions in Iran.

Downing Street said the prime minister talked to Nikos Christodoulides this morning to reiterate that the British base “would not be involved in the UK’s continuation of its agreement with the US to use UK bases in collective self defence of the region.

“Discussing the economic impact of the ongoing conflict, the leaders agreed that deescalation in the region was the priority.”

A spokesperson for the Cypriot leader said: “The British prime minister reiterated … that the security of the Republic of Cyprus is fundamental to the United Kingdom and, to that end, a decision has been taken to enhance the means contributing to the preventive measures already in place.

“Finally, the prime minister reiterated that the British Bases in Cyprus will not be used for any offensive military operations.”

A video appears to show an Israeli attack against an air force base and ammunition depot in Dezful, western Iran on Saturday.

The footage, uploaded to social media, shows plumes of smoke rising above the city, followed by a second explosion.

It comes after the Israeli defence minister pledged that attacks on Iran would “significantly increase” in the coming week.

It is unconfirmed whether the clip is showing an ammunition dump, or an Israeli airstrike, as stated.