Iran Live: Ayatollah Urges Jihad Against US, Israel Pounds Tehran, Beirut

Israel said it is bombarding regime targets in the Iranian capital of Tehran and the militia Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital of Beirut early Friday morning, on day seven of an intensifying U.S.-led war that is spreading across the Middle East.

Influential Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Jawad Al‑Khalisi issued a fatwa calling for jihad—a religious decree urging an Islamic holy war—to be waged against the U.S. and Israel across the world, Iranian state media reported—a sign of how the conflict might blow back onto the streets of Western cities.