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Israel launches fresh strikes on Tehran and Beirut as US warns 'hardest hits' on Iran 'yet to come'

Drones strike the American embassy in Saudi Arabia and Iran claims to have "destroyed" a building at a US air base in Bahrain as it continues retaliatory attacks across the Gulf.
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