Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has instructed officials of ministries and departments concerned to remain alert and closely monitor developments in the Middle East.

Bangladesh’s stock market took a heavier hit than most of its global peers following the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran, as investor panic and weak market safeguards amplified a selloff that rattled bourses worldwide.

IRGC says it is carrying out a sixth wave of attacks in retaliation for the US and Israeli bombardment of Iran. More explosions heard in Dubai, Doha and Manama

The United States and Israel launched their most ambitious attacks on Iran in decades on Saturday

"Iran's national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity should be respected," it added

The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran yesterday, sending columns of smoke rising over Tehran as the Islamic republic retaliated with barrages of missiles across the region.

Flights from Bangladesh to several Middle Eastern destinations have remained suspended since yesterday afternoon as some countries in the region temporarily closed their airspace due to US and Israel’s strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation.

Calls for renewed peace efforts as US-Israel strikes on Iran trigger regional hostilities

Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints

The move follows an air war with Israel in which Iran's longtime enemy said it wanted to prevent Tehran developing a nuclear weapon.

A survey released last week said 83% of Jewish Israelis supported the assault on Iran and pollsters said they expected Netanyahu's Likud party,

"We have achieved a historic victory," Netanyahu said in a televised address to the nation after the start of a ceasefire agreed to by both countries.

Trump said over the weekend that the US deployment of 30,000-pound bombs had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

But whether the current course of events will follow the course of 2020, cannot be said with certainty.

"Plans for restarting (the facilities) have been prepared in advance, and our strategy is to ensure that production and services are not disrupted," said the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran

Witnesses said they heard explosions near Tel Aviv and Beersheba in southern Israel before Trump's statement.

Even if their attacks cause severe damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities, this will only harden Iran’s resolve to acquire a bomb.

Trump's Republican Party holds a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and it is unlikely any resolution restricting Trump's actions could pass both chambers.

While an Iranian official confirmed that Tehran had agreed to a ceasefire, there was no immediate comment yet from Israel

Bangladesh’s energy sector may come under significant threat if the Iran-Israel war escalates and Iran follows through on its threat to block the Strait of Hormuz, a vital maritime trade route through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply is shipped every day.