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The Israeli military said on Sunday that it struck targets deep inside Tehran, a day after a joint US-Israeli attack killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
“The IDF is striking targets that belong to the Iranian terror regime in the heart of Tehran,” the military said. “Over the past day, the Israeli Air Force conducted large-scale strikes in order to establish aerial superiority and to pave the path to Tehran.”
The Israeli military revealed on Sunday that Khamenei was killed in large-scale operation carried out by the Israeli air force. It added that its initial strike on Iran the previous day killed 40 senior commanders along with Khamenei.
“The first step of this operation was the opening strike in which we eliminated 40 senior commanders, including Khamenei, in one minute in two different locations over a thousand miles from Israel in broad daylight,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told journalists.
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Plume of smokes rise from reported explosions in Tehran on March 1, 2026. (AFP)
Iran for its part said on Sunday that it launched a new wave of missile and drone strikes targeting US military bases in the region and Israel, state media said, in retaliation for a massive attack that killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened Iran against retaliating saying that if they do “we will hit them with a force that has never been seen before.”
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani vowed on Sunday to hit the US and Israel with a force never seen before following their strikes on the Islamic Republic which killed the country’s supreme leader.
“YESTERDAY IRAN FIRED MISSILES AT THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL, AND THEY DID HURT. TODAY WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT THEY HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE,” said Larijani in a post on X.
Iran’s missile stockpiles
The Israeli military said it had destroyed roughly half of Iran’s missile stockpiles in the previous war in June 2025, adding the Islamic Republic had been producing dozens of surface-to-surface missiles each month.
“During the operation (in June 2025), we destroyed approximately half of the Iranian regime’s missile stockpiles and prevented the production of at least 1,500 additional missiles,” military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised statement on Sunday.
“The regime had recently been producing dozens of surface-to-surface missiles per month and intended to increase production to hundreds per month.”
Israel mobilizes about 20,000 reservists
Separately, the Israeli military’s Home Front Command said on Sunday it had mobilized around 20,000 reservists to assist civilians following Iranian missile attacks.
“The command has called in approximately 20,000 reservists” who have joined over the past 24 hours the Home Front Command forces across the country, it said on its website.
With agencies
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