Iran fires on targets across the Middle East while Israel and US hit Tehran

A bridge struck by US airstrikes in the town of Karaj, west of Tehran (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran has fired on targets across the Middle East, damaging a desalination plant and setting a refinery ablaze in Kuwait, while American and Israeli airstrikes hit the Islamic Republic as the war neared the end of its fifth week.

Tehran has kept the pressure on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbours, despite US and Israeli insistence that Iran’s military capabilities have been all but destroyed.