As it happened: Australia firm on sending troops to region; Flight from Dubai to Sydney departs; Israel vows to 'eliminate' Iran's new supreme leader; IDF targets Hezbollah in Beirut

We're going to wrap our live coverage here for today. Please follow the latest from Sydney Airport as the first Australians who had been stranded in Dubai finally arrive home for emotional reunions with loved ones.

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A planeload of Australians, who had been stranded in Dubai since the start of the most recent conflict in the Middle East on Saturday, have returned home.

Emirates flight EK414 safely made it out of the warzone about 9.30am today (AEDT) and landed in Sydney just before 10.30pm.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused US President Donald Trump of bombing Iran "out of spite".

In a post on X, Araghchi said: "When complex nuclear negotiations are treated like a real estate transaction, and when big lies cloud realities, unrealistic expectations can never be met."

"The outcome? Bombing the negotiation table out of spite," he added. "Mr. Trump betrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him."

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has taken to X to declare that whoever Iran picks to be the country's next supreme leader will be an "unequivocal target for elimination".

"Every leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime to continue and lead the plan to destroy Israel, to threaten the United States and the free world and the countries of the region, and to oppress the Iranian people — will be an unequivocal target for elimination," Katz wrote.

"It doesn't matter what his name is or where he hides.

"We will continue to work with all our might, together with our American partners, to crush the regime's capabilities and create the conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow and replace it."

Ayatollah Ali Khamanei's second-eldest son Mojtaba Khamenei (pictured) is widely tipped to be voted by a group of senior officials as the successor to the Islamic Republic.

The Israeli Defence Force says it has begun striking infrastructure belonging to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Beirut, it announced in a post to Telegram.

Lebanon has been hit in multiple strikes, where Israel said it is retaliating against Hezbollah militants after the Iran-backed group fired on Israel, AP reports.

Lebanon's state-run media reported that at least five people were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a residential complex in the city of Baalbeck overnight on Tuesday.

More than 50 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 300 wounded, according to the Health Ministry.

Qantas says it is doing everything it can to support customers whose flights have been impacted by the war.

While the airline says its flights don't stop in the region, it points out some of its partners, such as Emirates, are affected.

"We are doing everything we can to support our customers who are booked to travel on these airlines and need to change their travel plans," Qantas said.

"We are communicating with these customers directly.

"We also stand ready to support Australians in the region and remain in close contact with the Australian government."

A singular Sydney-bound Emirates flight from Dubai is expected to land in Sydney in about three and a half hours.

Qantas has announced it will operate a one-off additional A380 service from Sydney to London via Singapore this weekend, to transport almost 500 stranded passengers looking for a way to get to Europe and the UK.

Flight QF331 will depart from Sydney at 10.15pm on Saturday and will arrive at London Heathrow at 2pm on Sunday, The Age reports.

Qantas does not operate flights into the Middle East, meaning all of its flights to and from Europe are continuing to operate.

However, the airline has been forced to adjust flight paths due to airspace restrictions triggered by the war.

"Our Perth to London flights will now temporarily stop in Singapore to refuel, allowing us to accommodate an extra 60 customers and their bags," the national carrier said in a post to social media.

Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who spent more than 800 days in an Iranian jail before she was freed, says the road to finding a replacement for slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is more complex than reported.

Khamanei's second-eldest son Mojtaba Khamenei is widely tipped to be voted by a group of senior officials as the successor to the Islamic Republic.

But Moore-Gilbert says the cleric "isn't technically qualified" to take over from his father.

"It's a difficult one because actually, under the Iranian constitution, the successor must be a senior Shia cleric," Moore-Gilbert said.

"Mojtaba Khamanei, whilst being a cleric, is a much more junior ranking."

In addition, the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran led to the overthrow of a dynastic ruling.

"Long has it been stated that dynasties are not to rule Iran and that religious legitimacy should be the basis of the Islamic Republic instead," Moore-Gilbert said.

"The fact they are potentially resorting to a new dynasty, this one of Shia clerics, is rather hypocritical in many people's minds."

Israeli forces claim to have struck "dozens" of command centres and the Basij, a branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

"A short while ago, the Israeli Air Force, guided by IDF intelligence, completed an additional wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime's command centres throughout Tehran," the IDF said in a post to Telegram.

Dozens of munitions were dropped on Basij and internal security command centres, the IDF said.

Israeli forces also struck missile launchers and Iran's Ground Forces supply.

Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor was moved to a new location just a week before she and five other US service members were killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait, AP reports.

Amor's husband Joey said the mother of two was recently moved off-base to a shipping container-style building in Port Shuaiba that had no defences.

"They were dispersing because they were in fear that the base they were on was going to get attacked and they felt it was safer in smaller groups in separate places," he said.

Amor, 39, was an avid gardener who enjoyed making salsa from the peppers and tomatoes in her garden with her son, a senior in high school.

She also enjoyed rollerblading and bicycling with her fourth-grade daughter.