Across Iran’s capital, explosions rang out overnight as the U.S. and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes. Iran and its allies have hit back against Israel and neighboring Gulf states.

One person inside Iran says "every part" of the capital has been hit. Elsewhere, Israel says ground troops will advance in Lebanon, and Iranian strikes continue in the region.

Israel again attacked the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon while Iran struck Gulf states that host U.S. bases. The conflict paralysed globally vital energy shipments along with hundreds of flight routes.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio said the US launched its offensive against Iran because it knew Israel was going to attack and “that would precipitate an attack against American forces”.

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.

The Israeli military says strikes on Beirut and parts of southern Lebanon are a response to attacks on northern Israel by Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Planned Israeli action against Iran prompted the US to strike, secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Monday. The US embassy in Riyadh was hit by two drones, according to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry.

Israel reportedly hacked nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras to spy on Ali Khamenei. Israeli spies spent years surveilling the ayatollah’s bodyguards by accessing the Iranian capital’s traffic camera network, sources claimed.