Top updates: Another flight carrying 311 Indians lands in Delhi from Iran

A plane carrying 311 Indian citizens evacuated from Iran arrived in New Delhi on Sunday evening amid escalating tensions in West Asia, the Ministry of External Affairs said.

This fresh batch of evacuees brings the number of Indians brought back from Iran to 1,428, PTI reported.

Earlier in the day, Tehran launched fresh strikes against Tel Aviv after the United States joined Israel’s war against Iran. American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in the country.

The United States’ decision to directly enter the conflict came over a week after the Israeli military struck what it claimed were nuclear targets, and also other sites, in Iran with the aim of stalling Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran also retaliated with missile attacks on Israel.

Here is more on this and other top updates:

• During a Pentagon briefing on Sunday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that Iran’s nuclear ambitions were “obliterated” after President Donald Trump ordered strikes on the country’s three nuclear sites, NPR reported. The attack did not affect Iranian troops or civilians, he said. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine provided further details on the mission, dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer”. He said the US attack involved seven B-2 Stealth Bombers and at least one submarine, marking the largest B-2 strike in US history. “Initial battle damage assessments...

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