Death toll in Iran surpasses 1,000 as Israel-US strikes continue
Al Jazeera
A funeral for the country’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been postponed amid explosions.
Israel has carried out air strikes targeting security forces across Iran on the fifth day of the US-Israeli assault, as the death toll surpassed 1,000 and Iran launched more counterattacks and warned of the destruction of military and economic infrastructure across the Middle East.
Israeli attacks on Wednesday struck the country’s capital Tehran, the holy city of Qom, western Iran and across Iran’s central Isfahan province, according to the country’s Tasnim news agency. The attacks also damaged residential units, the agency added.
Israel said it hit buildings belonging to the Basij, a volunteer police paramilitary force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as well as targeting buildings associated with Iran’s internal security command.
The death toll since the US-Israeli assault began on Saturday has reached 1,045, Iranian state media reported.
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall said civilians are bearing the brunt of these attacks, and noted that the country is under fire from every direction.
Hezbollah says its attack is in response to the killing of Iran’s Khamenei and ‘in defence of Lebanon and its people’.
President Masoud Pezeshkian condemns killing of Iran’s supreme leader as ‘a great crime’, according to his office.
Iran confirms targeting US bases across the Middle East.