Iran’s foreign minister also traveled to Beirut as Israel struck the city’s suburbs and expanded the areas it ordered residents to flee.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared in public on Friday for the first time since Iran's missile attack on Israel, describing it as legitimate punishment for what he called Israeli crimes and calling for more anti-Israel struggle.

In his first public appearance since Iran's attack on Israel, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the Islamic Republic is undeterred in its efforts against the Jewish state and other Western democracies.