Saturday’s strikes come after Israeli ambassador tells UN ‘we will not stop’ until Iranian nuclear threat eliminated while Iran vows to keep defending itself

• Israel and Iran launch new attacks as Tehran says it will not negotiate nuclear programme while under threat

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has said the military killed a veteran commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ overseas arm in a strike in an apartment in Qom, Iran.

The veteran commander, Saeed Izadi, had led the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, Katz said in a statement on Saturday quoted by Reuters.