Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the U.S.-Israel strikes were "wholly unprovoked, illegal, and illegitimate."

Newsweek has created a list recording every country where a strike has been reported in the U.S.-Iran conflict.

A map created by the CBS News data team shows the strike locations across Iran, including the capital and the site of a major nuclear facility.

Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded.

Israel's military said it had begun a "broad wave of strikes" in Tehran on Wednesday morning. U.S. officials touted early gains, while Democrats warned the war could widen.

Israeli defence analysts have raised the possibility that foreign expertise may have contributed to Iran’s development of these systems, prompting speculation about potential technological support from Russia or China.

Four days into war with Iran, at least one of the United States’ Gulf allies is already running low on crucial interceptor munitions used to defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks, two sources told CNN.

The power of its air force diminished by Western sanctions, Iran has invested heavily in missiles and drones. As a result, the country has amassed what US intelligence called in early 2025 the “largest stockpile” of such systems in the Middle East.

The 2019 report from the Defense Intelligence Agency explained that Iran pursued ballistic missiles in part because it lacked a modern air force. The missiles gave the country “a long-range strike capability to dissuade its adversaries in the region — particularly the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia — from attacking Iran.”

The West Asia conflict expanded to include Iran-backed militias on Monday with an attack by Hezbollah on Israel. Israel struck back against the group in Lebanon while the United States pounded targets in Iran.