Iran live updates: US strikes Iranian radar sites after drones fired toward strait, CENTCOM says

The United States has denied visas to "a large portion" of the support staff for the Iranian national soccer team just days before the World Cup, the Iranian Embassy in Turkey said Saturday.

The embassy's account on X posting, "Why do you not say that visas were denied to a large portion of the managerial and executive staff, technical advisers, and others who are an integral part of any national football team?" replying to the post from the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack.

"By extending your whimsical hostilities against the Iranian nation into the realm of sport, the U.S. government in practice is depriving Iran’s national team of its right to play in the World Cup under normal conditions and without undue pressure and stress," the post says.

Ambassador Barrack's post praised the work of the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara for processing the visas for the Iranian team.

"You cannot whitewash conduct that violates FIFA regulations and breaches the United States’ host obligations merely by praising yourselves," the Iranian post said.

The team is scheduled to arrive in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday.

Iran takes on New Zealand on Monday, June 15, in Los Angeles.

-ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge

Six people have been killed and four others wounded in an airstrike that targeted the town of Saksakiyah, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

On Saturday, Israeli airstrikes have so far killed a total of nine people, including three in the Lebanese military.

-ABC News' Rashid Haddou

The Lebanese Army said that an Israeli airstrike targeting a military vehicle has killed two officers and one soldier, according to a statement released Saturday morning.

Calling it an "aggressive and barbaric raid," officials said the strike hit "a military vehicle on the Kafr Tibnit - Kharbital (Nabatieh) road, resulting in the martyrdom of two officers, with ranks of brigadier general and captain, and a soldier," according to the Lebanese Army.

"The continuation of the Israeli brutal, deliberate, and repeated aggression against Lebanon and its people and army only increases our steadfastness, faith, and determination to confront these aggressive attempts aimed at thwarting all efforts to reach a solution that allows for the restoration of stability, a comprehensive ceasefire, and the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories," the statement said.

U.S. forces helped shoot down incoming Iranian missiles and drones shot toward Kuwait and Bahrain, U.S. Central Command said.

The barrage fired at Iran's Gulf neighbors -- a total of seven ballistic missiles -- came hours after U.S. forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that had been launched toward the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM said in a social media post.

“Initial assessments indicate six of the missiles launched by Iran were intercepted and a seventh did not reach its intended target," the post stated. "There are currently no reports of harm to U.S. personnel, and Iranian claims of damaging U.S. 5th fleet headquarters in Bahrain are false."

CENTCOM said the earlier launch of Iran's attack drones "posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic" and, in response, the U.S. struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to "defend against further maritime attacks."