Fresh explosions were reported in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Sunday afternoon local time after Iran's president warned of "more painful and crushing responses" to Israeli strikes. Israel launched the first of a series of airstrikes across Iran late on Thursday U.

Israel detonated five car bombs in the Iranian capital Tehran amid an exchange of attacks between the two regional arch-foes, Iranian media said on Sunday. The state news agency IRNA, citing an informed source, said the explosions took place after Iranian air defenses successfully repelled the latest wave of Israeli strikes on Iran.