An Al Jazeera correspondent based in Tehran reported “unprecedented” US-Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital on Monday despite President Trump’s insistence that progress was being made toward a diplomatic solution, a claim Iranian officials have rejected.
The Israeli Air Force announced that it was conducting a “wave” of airstrikes across Tehran and that it bombarded the city overnight Sunday into Monday.
The Al Jazeera correspondent, Suhaib al-Asa, reported that the strikes were especially heavy in eastern Tehran, where Iranian air defenses were activated. Strikes also hit other parts of the country, with the Fars news agency reporting six killed in the northwestern city of Tabriz and one child killed by strikes in the city of Khorramabad.
The Iranian Red Crescent published videos of its rescue workers pulling a child and his father from a residential building that was bombed in Tehran and rescuing a one-year-old girl in Tabriz. “She is the sole survivor of her family, all four of whom were tragically martyred in the attack,” the Red Crescent said on X.
The Iranian military also announced another round of attacks targeting Israel and US bases in the region. “The Army said drone units of its ground, air, and naval forces from across the country conducted the operations against Tel Nof Air Base near Tel Aviv and Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, also known as Azraq, in Jordan,” reported Iran’s PressTV.
The US military has claimed that it has hit over 8,000 targets inside Iran, a bombing campaign that has had a devastating impact on civilians. The Iranian Red Crescent Society and the Iranian government haven’t released death tolls since earlier this month, but according to the Human Rights Activist News Agency, or HRANA, a US-based and US-funded NGO that’s very critical of the government, at least 1,443 civilians have been killed in the US-Israeli bombing campaign.
The HRANA said strikes on Monday killed at least 36 civilians and wounded 138 more. Civilian targets that were struck include a school, several residential buildings, a cultural center, and a gas company. The HRANA also recorded multiple attacks on military bases.
