Israel has struck several nuclear facilities in Iran as part of a large-scale air campaign that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said is necessary to "roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival".

After the first wave of attacks on Friday damaged the Natanz uranium enrichment plant and assassinated leading nuclear scientists, Netanyahu said Israel had acted because "if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time".

"It could be a year. It could be within a few months," he warned.

Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Sunday that Israel had "crossed a new red line in international law" by attacking nuclear sites, and that Iran was launching missiles and drones at Israel in response.

He also insisted that the Iranian nuclear programme was peaceful, and that his country's doctrine was "rooted in our belief in the prohibition and illegitimacy of nuclear weapons".