Iran war live updates: Mark Carney doesn’t rule out Canada joining war; Israel launches fresh strikes on Tehran

By Adam Fulton · The Guardian World

Canadian PM says the US-Israeli strikes on Iran were ‘inconsistent with international law’ but that his country ‘will stand by our allies’. Follow the latest news Airstrikes hit Iran-Iraq border as US and Israeli plan to mobilise Kurds gathers pace US may not have capacity to take down full barrage of Iranian drones, officials warn Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said on Thursday that he couldn’t rule out his country’s military participation in the escalating war in the Middle East. An airstrike hit the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut early on Thursday , after Israel had issued a warning to residents. Elsewhere, three people were killed in a pair of Israeli strikes on vehicles along Beirut’s airport highway, Lebanon’s health ministry said. Israel has urged people to leave the section of Lebanon south of the Litani river – an area of hundreds of square kilometres – as the army was “compelled to take military action”. A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka as the effects of the war in the Middle East spread to yet another country. The IRIS Dena frigate had been on a friendly visit to India when it was hit. Eighty-seven bodies had been collected, a Sri Lankan navy official said. Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel and the US had made “historic gains ” in their war against Iran. A spokesperson for the prime minister also claimed the attack was needed as Iran was using “new underground bunkers” to rebuild its atomic bomb program. Donald Trump hailed the US performance in the war, saying Iran’s leaders were rapidly being killed, and vowed to push on . “We’re doing well on the war front, to put it mildly. Somebody said on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15.” A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by Nato air defense systems, Turkish officials said.…