In a tit-for-tat escalation of hostilities, the IDF has executed sweeping aerial bombardments against Tehran, decimating key Iranian installations integral to the advancement of uranium enrichment centrifuges and ballistic missile production, prompting a retaliatory barrage of approximately 400 Iranian missiles and hundreds of UAVs that have wrought havoc across Israel, precipitating at least 24 fatalities; Tehran has subsequently cautioned that any interventionist machinations on the part of the United States could catalyse a regional conflagration, a prospect seemingly undeterred by President Trump's oblique allusions to a more assertive American posture, whilst the internecine strife has, according to a Washington-based human rights organisation, engendered a calamitous death toll of at least 585 in Iran, including 239 non-combatants, triggering a mass exodus from Tehran characterised by sclerotic traffic arteries and the shuttering of commercial enterprises, all whilst ostensibly ongoing diplomatic parleys between Washington and Tehran remain mired in unproductive deadlock amidst the inexorable ratcheting up of belligerent actions.