TEHRAN: Israel’s attack on multiple areas of Iran, including the capital Tehran, wounded at least 95 people, an emergency services official told state TV.
“So far, 95 people were injured and taken to medical centres in 12 different provinces that were targeted,” national emergency services spokesperson Mojtaba Khaledi told state TV.
Israel said Friday it had carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites, promising to continue its campaign and “achieve much more”. Blasts were reported in Tehran and at a key uranium enrichment site.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed acting Chief of Staff and Commander-in-Chief.
According to Iranian media reports, following the order of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, General Ahmad Vahidi has been appointed as the acting Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The report also states that General Habibollah Sayyari has been temporarily appointed as the Chief of Staff of the Iranian military.
It is noteworthy that Israel has carried out airstrikes on numerous sites within Iran, claiming to have damaged military targets and to have killed key Iranian figures.
Israel has also claimed to have martyred IRGC Commander Hussein Salami and Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the Chief of Staff, during these attacks.
Subsequently, Iran’s official media confirmed the martyrdom of Commander Hussein Salami and Major General Mohammad Bagheri.
Moreover, Iran has also officially confirmed the death of six prominent nuclear scientists, attributing their martyrdom to recent Israeli attacks. Iranian media reports identify the scientists as Abdulhamid Minouchehr, Ahmadreza Zolfaghari, Seyyed Amirhossein Faqhi, Motablizadeh, Mohammed Mehdi Tehranchi, and Fereydoun Abbasi..
These scientists were reportedly involved in Iran’s nuclear program, and their deaths have raised tensions in the region amid ongoing concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Israel’s military said its jets carried out strikes on “dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of Iran”.
It said 200 jets were involved in the raids, striking about 100 targets.
Blasts reported in the capital, where state television said fire and smoke were seen at a key site for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the city’s east.
Damage to residential buildings and civilian deaths were also reported.
State television said Natanz, in Iran’s central Isfahan province and home to a key nuclear site, had been hit “several times”.
The UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Natanz was among the sites targeted in the attacks and said it was in touch with Iranian authorities and its inspectors in the country “regarding radiation levels”.
Additional strikes were reported against three military sites in Iran’s northwest.Iranian state media confirmed the deaths of Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami and armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri in the attacks.
It also reported 50 people, including women and children, had been injured.
