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Plumes of smoke from two simultaneous strikes over Tehran on Monday. Photograph: Mohsen Ganji/AP How the US-Israeli war against Iran exploded into a regional conflict, as Tehran retaliated with strikes across the Middle East US-Israel war on Iran – live updates By Oliver Holmes and William Christou . Visuals by Lucy Swan , Ashley Kirk , Chris Watson , Heidi Wilson , Boglarka Kosztolanyi , Maheen Sadiq and Bryony Moore A US-Israeli war against Iran that began on Saturday with bombing and missile attacks that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei , has exploded into a regional conflict, with Tehran retaliating by launching strikes across the Middle East. By Monday, a major new front had opened with Israel bombing Lebanon after Iran’s ally, Hezbollah, launched strikes. And Cyprus said a drone attack had targeted a British base on the Mediterranean island nation. In an indication that the conflict could draw in other nations, the UK, France and Germany – which did not endorse the first US-Israeli strikes – said they were ready to work against Iran’s attacks. US and Israeli attacks On Saturday, Israel announced the beginning of what it called Operation Lion’s Roar, which an Israeli military official said was intended to “degrade the regime’s capabilities”. The attack was launched in tandem with what the US called Operation Epic Fury. Strikes over the weekend and into Monday have hit key security and political targets in Tehran, including Khamenei’s residence, and ballistic missile caches elsewhere in the country. At least 14 cities across Iran have been hit, in what an Israeli military official said was a much more wide-ranging campaign than the previous US-Israeli attack on Iran in the 12-day war last summer . Israel claimed to have killed at least 40 senior Iranian commanders in the first day of attacks. At least 555 people have been killed in Iran so far by the US-Israeli campaign, the Iranian Red Crescent Society has said. Almost 165 people were killed and at le...