Live updates: Trump signals he will escalate war with Iran as Tehran apologises to neighbors for strikes

CNN’s team in Tehran heard bomb blasts late Saturday local time as the Israel Defense Forces announced a new “wave of strikes” in the city.

The Iranian state-affiliated Fars News Agency said US and Israeli bombing targeted an oil refinery in southern Tehran. CNN crews heard what sounded like a wave of airstrikes and major explosions in the Iranian capital, with thuds in the east, south and northwest of the city.

CNN reports from Iran with the permission of the Iranian government.

Here’s what else you should know:

• Blasts around the region: Witnesses heard more explosions in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates Saturday. Debris from an intercepted projectile over Dubai killed a driver, the government media office said in a post to X. Elsewhere in the city, CNN teams were among those evacuated when debris from a separate interception damaged a high-rise building in the busy Marina area.

• Bombs sale: The Trump administration declared an emergency and bypassed Congress to immediately sell 12,000 bombs to Israel as part of the ongoing military operations against Iran.

• Iran’s next leader: A new Iranian supreme leader could be chosen within the next 24 hours, a member of the country’s Assembly of Experts told Fars.

• Water supply concerns: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said a US attack on a desalination plant — which turns sea water into drinking water — off the southern coast of Oman impacted the water supply in 30 villages.

• Kuwait cuts oil production: The Gulf nation has made precautionary reductions in crude oil production, according to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. It marks another disruption to the global energy industry as US gas prices soar.

• Fatal strike in Iraq: An unidentified airstrike killed a member of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces — a predominantly Shiite, Iranian-backed paramilitary force — and wounded three others, according to the country’s Joint Operations Command.

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto, Max Saltman, Jennifer Hansler, Tim Lister, Adam Pourahmadi, Catherine Nicolls, Michelle Velez and Christian Edwards contributed to this report.