Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed U.S. demands for surrender as Israeli airstrikes intensified. President Trump considered military involvement as highways out of Tehran clogged with fleeing civilians.

The Israel Defence Force (IDF) on Wednesday announced that it had attacked a centrifuge production site and multiple weapon manufacturing facilities in Tehran, which were the “key elements of Iran’s nuclear weapons and missile programs”.

Explosions were heard in Tehran early Wednesday as intense Israeli airstrikes again targeted Iran’s capital in a conflict that a human rights group said had killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,