The Fars news agency reports that explosions were heard in the cities of Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, and Kermanshah.
The news agency has also reported that several missiles hit University Street and the Republic area of the Iranian capital Tehran.
The US coordinated with Israel on the attack on Iran, reports in Israeli and US media say. (CNN and Ynet)
Israel has woken up this morning at war with Iran for the second time in less than a year.
V BBC Persian Jiyar Gol:
The office of Iran’s Supreme Leader and the presidential office in Tehran were also reportedly targeted.
Military sites have been targeted in Kermanshah, Qum, Isfahan, Tabriz, Karaj and as well as at Iranian naval facilities in Kenarak in the south of the country. A video we have received from the small city of Kamyaran in Kurdish region, shows an IRGC base is bombed.
even if it comes through military intervention and the killing of senior officials.
Others, however, fear that airstrikes alone may not bring about the regime’s collapse. They worry it could survive and, in response, become even more brutal towards its own people.
Trump has just announced that Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed. From his post on Truth Social:
Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do.
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah, has welcomed the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"Ali Khamenei, the bloodthirsty Zahhak of our time, the killer of tens of thousands of Iran’s bravest sons and daughters, has been erased. With his death, the Islamic Republic has effectively come to an end..."
Pahlavi discouraged Iranian officials from appointing a successor and warned that it was the military, security and police forces "last chance" to join the people.
V reuters:
Iran's IRGC tells ships passage through Strait of Hormuz 'not allowed', EU naval mission official says
Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say
BBC Verify has confirmed three videos showing celebrations in the cities of Karaj and Tehran tonight following unconfirmed reports of the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - vids posted on x:
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