‘Unprecedented’: Israel, US carry out extensive strikes across Iran
Al Jazeera
Tehran is hit by ‘a wide-scale wave of strikes’ as US President Donald Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum is set to expire soon.
Israel and the United States have launched a new wave of attacks against Iran as Tehran renewed retaliatory strikes on its Gulf neighbours, and pledged to hit power plants in Israel as well as other regional countries if its power plants were targeted.
The Israeli military said on Monday it had “begun a wide-scale wave of strikes” on infrastructure targets in Tehran, without immediately elaborating.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Admiral Brad Cooper claimed in an interview that Iran was launching missiles and drones from populated areas, suggesting those areas would be targeted. Israel provided no proof for its claims. It made similar claims to target civilian areas in Gaza, which have been turned to ruins by more than two years of genocidal war.
The US military said it targeted a turbine engine production site in north-central Iran’s Qom province used for drone and aircraft components linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in Tehran, Suhaib al-Asa, reported that the size and volume of the explosions in the Iranian capital were “unprecedented”, especially in the eastern side of the city.
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