Iran says will hit economic targets in the region

Iran's military on Wednesday vowed to strike US and Israeli banks and economic centres in the region, after overnight attacks hit a bank in Tehran.

"Last night, the American and Zionist terrorist army, after failing in their military objectives, targeted one of the country's banks," a spokesperson for the military's central operational command, Khatam al-Anbiya.

"People in the region should not be within a one kilometre radius of the banks."

Air strikes hit an administrative building linked to ⁠Bank Sepah, one of ​Iran's largest public banks, in the capital, killing an unspecified number of employees, according to the ​semi-official Mehr news agency.

Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it would launch a barrage of missiles towards Israel that would be the "most violent" and heaviest since the start of the war on 27 February.

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