At least two individuals killed and two cops wounded throughout ten-minute gun battle exterior Israeli Consulate in Istanbul after IDF issued warning to Iranians: Live updates

At least two attackers were killed and one was seriously injured in an extended gun battle between police and assailants directly outside the building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, according to media reports and Reuters video.

Reuters video showed police officers pulling out guns and taking cover as shots rang out for at least 10 minutes. One person was covered in blood.

Other footage obtained by Reuters showed an apparent attacker moving among parked white police and security buses and firing over several minutes with an automatic rifle and handgun. Two bodies lay on nearby streets and grassy areas.

Media reported that two police officers had been injured in the incident, which occurred immediately outside a tower where the Israeli consulate is located in Istanbul’s financial district.

Since the Hamas-Israel war began in 2023, a heavily armed police presence has been maintained in the area near the Israeli consulate.

A source with knowledge of the matter said there were no Israeli diplomats stationed in Turkey at present.

The IDF today issued a chilling warning to Iranians, telling the nation’s citizens to stay away from all trains and train lines.

It said via its Persian-language account on X: ‘For the sake of your security, we kindly request that from this moment until 21:00 Iran time, you refrain from using and travelling by train throughout Iran’.

‘Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life’.

The warning comes several hours before the deadline for Trump’s deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned today that it was willing to hit civilian targets if the US carries out assaults on civilian facilities.

The chilling warning comes after Donald Trump threatened to launch attacks on Iran’s bridges, power plants and other civilian infrastructure if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8pm EST tonight.

The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog on Monday warned that attacks near Iran’s Bushehr atomic power plant ‘pose a very real danger to nuclear safety and must stop.’

The facility, located in the south of Iran and equipped with a 1,000-megawatt reactor, has been targeted four times since the US-Israeli war on Iran began. The latest strike was reported by Iranian state media on Saturday.

Strikes near the operating plant ‘could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond,’ said Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on X.

Russia, whose specialists help operate the plant, said the strikes risked a ‘radiological disaster more devastating than Chernobyl.’

‘We once again urgently call for an immediate cessation of hostilities,’ the Russian foreign ministry said.

The IAEA analysed satellite imagery of the site, confirming the impact of the latest strike, which did not damage the power plant.

Grossi added that one strike hit just 246 feet from the plant perimeter.

‘A nuclear facility and surrounding areas should never be struck,’ he said.

Bushehr, built with help from Russia, is Iran’s only operational nuclear power reactor, according to the IAEA.

Russian state media reported that 198 workers at the plant were evacuated just after the latest strike, with about 100 Russian staff remaining at the site.

According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, Israeli forces have shelled the Lebanese town of Aynata with phosphorus munitions.

The IDF has not yet commented on the matter.

Turkey’s interior minister Mustafa Çiftçi said shortly after the shooting: ‘Three individuals who engaged in an armed clash with our police officers on duty in front of the Yapı Kredi Plaza Blocks in Istanbul have been neutralised.

‘Two of our heroic police officers were slightly injured in the clash. The identities of the terrorists have been determined.

‘It has been established that one of the individuals, who came to Istanbul from Izmit in a rented vehicle, has links to an organisation that exploits religion; and that one of the two terrorists, who are brothers, has a drug-related record.’

Turkey’s interior ministry said that two of the three attackers in the shooting at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul were brothers.

The UAE today said its air defences are engaging Iranian drones and missiles.

The nation’s defence ministry said the sound of explosions across the country were being caused by air defences targeting ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones.