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Is­rael ‘s mil­i­tary said Sat­ur­day it struck an Iran­ian nu­clear re­search fa­cil­i­ty overnight and killed three se­nior Iran­ian com­man­ders in tar­get­ed at­tacks, while em­pha­siz­ing it was prepar­ing for the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a lengthy war.

The prospect of a wider war threat­ened, too. Iran­ian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they would re­sume at­tacks on U.S. ves­sels and war­ships in the Red Sea if the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion joins Is­rael’s mil­i­tary cam­paign against Iran. The Houthis had paused such at­tacks in May as part of a deal with the ad­min­is­tra­tion.

In­side Iran, smoke rose from an area near a moun­tain in Is­fa­han, where the province’s deputy gov­er­nor for se­cu­ri­ty af­fairs, Ak­bar Sale­hi, con­firmed the Is­raeli strikes dam­aged the fa­cil­i­ty but caused no ca­su­al­ties.