Tehran hit by heavy bombing on day seven of US-Israel war on Iran
Al Jazeera
An Al Jazeera correspondent in Tehran describes the bombardment in Iran’s capital as more intense than previously seen.
Intense air strikes have pounded Tehran and other Iranian cities on the seventh day of the US-Israeli war on the country, amid warnings from the United States Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth that the bombardment was “about to surge dramatically.”
Israel’s military said Friday morning it had begun a new “broad-scale wave of strikes” on Tehran, while the US said its B-2 bombers had dropped dozens of “penetrator” bombs on deeply buried ballistic missile launchers inside the country.
Massive explosions hit several locations in the Iranian capital, Tehran, overnight, including residential areas and the vicinity of Tehran University, according to news reports and an Al Jazeera team on the ground.
An Iranian military academy was also struck, while a journalist from Iran’s state broadcaster was reporting live near the site.
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi said the bombardment in the capital had been more intense than previously seen, with many strikes in the east and southeast of Tehran.
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