Live: Iran and Israel continue strikes as death toll mounts

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Vehicles jam a highway as a fire blazes nearby in the oil depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran, on 15 June, 2025.
Photo: AFP / ATTA KENARE

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Iran and Israel have continued exchanging fire, in the perhaps most dramatic escalation in hostilities between the two Middle Eastern nations in decades.

Dozens have been killed and hundreds are injured or missing, according to the latest reports from each side, many of them civilians or children.