Nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States scheduled for June 15 in Muscat have been canceled, Oman's foreign minister announced.
The announcement by Oman's top diplomat, Badr Albusaidi, came after Iran described the talks as "meaningless" after Israel struck Iran on June 13.
Separately, Iranian state media said fire broke out at the South Pars gas field in the southern Bushehr Province in an Israeli attack as the archenemies continued to trade fire on June 14.
Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), cited eyewitnesses as saying that the infrastructure was struck by micro drones.
Earlier in the day, Tehran unleashed a new barrage of missiles against Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, killing at least three people as Israel's prime minister vowed further attacks against Iran.
Iranian missiles -- and interceptors from Israel's Iron Dome defense system -- lit up the skies over Tel Aviv after midnight June 14, with some missiles slamming and exploding into buildings on the ground. Haifa and Jerusalem were also targeted, military officials said.
At least three people were killed and dozens more injured in the Iranian attacks, emergency officials said.
Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian later told Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that Iran would deliver a "more severe and powerful response" if Israel continue its attacks.
Israel's military, meanwhile, announced a new wave of air strikes in Iran, saying it was targeting dozens of missile launchers and air defenses in the Tehran region.
Israel’s defense minister issued a stark warning to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn,” Israel Katz said, after meeting with the army’s chief of staff.
Satellite Images Before And After Israeli Strikes Show Little Damage At Some Iranian Missile Sites
An Iranian diplomat told the United Nations that 78 people had been killed and more than 320 had been injured in the initial Israeli strikes. State TV reported on June 14 that around 60 people, including 20 children, were killed in an attack on a Tehran housing complex.
The back-and-forth started with a massive, surprise air assault by Israel on Iran's nuclear and missile facilities on June 13 as well as more targeted attacks against top generals and several nuclear scientists.
It has pushed the entire Middle East -- already on edge due to Israel's 20-month-long war in Gaza -- to the cusp of all-out war. Local officials said at least 27 people were killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza overnight on June 14.
In Tel Aviv, as sirens blared in the early hours of June 14, live television showed a large explosion at around 1:15 a.m. Explosions and shockwaves shook the city.
The Israeli military urged civilians to return to air-raid shelters.
At dawn, meanwhile, incoming projectiles were reported in several Israeli cities. Many of the missiles were intercepted, officials claimed, though damage to a number of homes was also reported.
Israel's firefighting service said it had rescued people trapped in a high-rise residential building.
A series of explosions were reported in several locations in Iran on June 14.
State TV reported that air defense systems were firing in the cities of Khorramabad, Kermanshah, and Tabriz, signaling the start of what could be a new Israeli attack. Video from a state TV affiliate showed a fire after an Israeli strike at a former car manufacturing plant in Borujerd.
The semi-official Mehr news agency said an Israel attack targeted the oil refinery in Tabriz, northwest of Tehran, and smoke could be seen rising from the facility.
Unconfirmed reports said that two projectiles hit Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, igniting a fire there. Residential areas in Tehran and several other cities also were hit, according to the official IRNA agency.
International leaders have both condemned the violence and also called for restraint.
Israel's staunchest ally, the United States, has called on Iran to come to agreement to restrict its nuclear ambitions. Iran has been enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels, according to United Nations monitors, and Israeli spy officials have repeatedly accused Tehran of rushing toward building its own atomic weapon.
The administration of US President Donald Trump has been leaning heavily on Iran in high-level negotiations. After the initial Israeli attacks, Trump warned Tehran to reach a deal "before it is too late."
Trump said on June 14 wrote on his social media platform that "this war in Israel-Iran should end."
The White House said US ground forces have helped shoot down Iranian missiles during the initial two waves of missiles. One unnamed official told The Associated Press that US jets and warships had not so far been used in the operation. No further details were provided.
Israeli Brigadier General Effie Defrin said Iran's missile retaliation on June 13 included two waves, each with about around 100 projectiles. He said most were intercepted by air defense systems.
Among the sites that were hit in Iran in the initial Israeli attacks were the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) command site in Tehran, according to Iranian state TV. The strike killed the commander of the corps, Major General Hossein Salami, Iranian officials said.
State radio reported June 14 that two more top generals had been killed: Gholamresa Mehrabi and Mehdi Rabani, who are senior members of the armed forces' general staff.
The deaths bring the total number of senior Iranian officers killed in the Israeli strikes to eight.
Israel's military also claimed that its strikes had killed "nine senior scientists and experts" involved with the country's nuclear programs.
Talks In Oman ‘Meaningless,’ Iran Says
Iranian and US officials had been scheduled to meet in Oman on June 15 for a new round of negotiations over Iran's nuclear efforts.
Tehran initially rejected a US proposal that Khamenei described as "100 percent" against national interests, and Iranian officials have reportedly been drafting a counterproposal.
Iran has consistently claimed its efforts are solely for civilian and not military purposes.
In the wake of the Israeli attacks, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told state media that continuing the talks would be unjustifiable. And Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei said they would be “meaningless."
“The US did a job that made the talks become meaningless,” Baqaei told state television.
Omani Foreign Minister Albusaidi later confirmed on social media that the talks had been called off.
"But diplomacy and dialogue remain the only pathway to lasting peace," he added in a post on X.
Trump, who has been pressing for negotiations, earlier wrote on social media: "There is still time to make this slaughter...come to an end."
"Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire," he wrote, using all capital letters. "JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE."
In a later interview with ABC News, Trump said that Iran "got hit about as hard as you’re going to get hit. And there’s more to come, a lot more.”
Netanyahu said his fight was not with the Iranian citizens and called on them to remove the “brutal dictatorship that has oppressed you for 46 years.”
Khamenei, in turn, warned that Israel would suffer severe consequences.
"With this crime, the Zionist regime has set itself for a bitter and painful fate and it will definitely receive it," he said in a statement.
Nikolay Mladenov, a former UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, argued that Iran agreeing to "end its nuclear program" and return to negotiations is "the only diplomatic solution" to the conflict.
Without that, "what is likely to happen is that Israel will escalate, Iran will escalate, and there might also be repercussions in the region and beyond," he said in an interview with RFE/RL in Prague.
If Israel's endgame is to topple the Iranian government, he warned there was no guarantee it would succeed.
"Regime change is a very difficult and risky process... In a number of outside interventions, the rate of success hasn’t been that great, to put it very mildly," he said.
Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility Hit
The Natanz uranium enrichment facility was hit "several times," Iranian state TV reported, showing images of heavy smoke billowing from the site.
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Natanz had been a target but said it had not detected increased radiation levels.
Agency chief Rafael Grossi, citing Iranian officials, told the UN Security Council that the above-ground section of the Natanz site was destroyed.
A strike was also reported at the Fordow enrichment facility some 100 kilometers southeast of Tehran as well as at a research facility in Isfahan.
A day before Israel launched its attack, the agency formally declaring Iran "noncompliant" with its nonproliferation obligations for the first time since 2005.
