Both security official Ali Larijani and Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani were “eliminated last night,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said.

The Israeli military said it had begun a “wide-scale wave of strikes” across Iran’s capital.

It was the third major blackout in Cuba over the past four months.

The ceremony also saw Michael B. Jordan win best actor and “Sinners” cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw make Oscar history as the first female director of photography to win the award.

Associated Press footage showed a column of smoke rising Saturday morning over the embassy compound.

The halt affected airports serving Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Richmond, Virginia.

The attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels in early September.

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s message appeared aimed at assuaging growing Gulf Arab anger over the attacks.

Israel said eight people were killed and 28 wounded in a strike in the central town of Beit Shemesh, bringing the overall death toll in the country to 10.

“We condemn Iranian attacks on countries in the region in the strongest terms,” the leaders of Britain, France and Germany said in a joint statement.