According to Iranian media, the building of Iran’s Council of Experts, which appoints Iran’s religious leader, has been bombed.
The Israeli Air Force has started a new wave of attacks against Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Tuesday.
This is stated by the Israeli military in a statement, writes the news agency AFP.
The building of Iran’s Council of Experts, tasked with appointing who will be the next religious leader, has been bombed in Israeli and US attacks.
This is according to local media, which shows images of the damaged building in the city of Qom, a little south of the capital, according to AFP.
The US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, and later it was confirmed that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been killed.
Tuesday is the fourth day in a row of Israeli and American attacks against Iran. According to the military, the attack is the ninth wave of attacks against the capital.
– The air force has now launched a large-scale wave of attacks aimed at the Iranian terrorist regime’s infrastructure in Tehran, the military stated in the statement according to the news agency.
According to Reuters, the Israeli military has ordered Iranian civilians to evacuate from several areas near Tehran, including from an industrial area and Payam airport near Tehran.
The military warns of an imminent attack.
Iranian media also write, according to the news agency, that Mehrabad airport in the capital and the Hakimieh area in eastern Tehran have been hit by attacks.
The extent of the damage in Tuesday’s attack is still unknown.
Earlier in the day, Iranian state media, citing the Red Crescent, said the death toll from the US and Israeli attacks in Iran had risen to 787.
Reuters wrote that.
The Red Crescent is a sister organization to the Red Cross.
Since the US and Israel attacked Iran, a large number of countries in the Middle East have been hit by Iranian retaliatory attacks. Militias allied with Iran have also carried out attacks.
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