Iran wants the United States to ‘directly pay’ for its strikes, rather than standing behind Israel,’ with the Islamic Republic prepared for a war lasting up to two years, a senior Iranian official told reporters.
The threat comes as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Iran posed an ‘imminent threat’ – one that Donald Trump is the ‘first president with the guts to actually do something about it.’
The world is now bracing for Tehran’s response after the United States hit its nuclear facilities over the weekend, with officials warning that it could hit US forces ‘within 48 hours’.
Iran earlier warned that the US should expect ‘heavy consequences’ for striking its nuclear sites over the weekend, issuing a threat that its entry into the conflict with Israel will ‘expand the scope of legitimate targets’.
Trump declared last night that ‘monumental damage’ has been done ‘to all nuclear sites in Iran’ as he called for a regime change in the Islamic Republic.
The US president wrote on Truth Social that satellite images he obtained showed the Iranian nuclear facilities were ‘obliterated,’ and noted that the most damage ‘took place far below ground level.’
Iranian media then reported that Israel was carrying out new strikes on the Fordow nuclear facilities today, with Israeli media saying the IDF was targeting an access road at the site.
Israel also launched an attack on ‘regime targets’ in Tehran, with hundreds of members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said to have been killed in a huge wave of strikes.
Meanwhile an Iranian television mouthpiece warned that up to 50,000 American soldiers will be returned to Washington in ‘coffins’ after Donald Trump raised the possibility of regime change in Tehran.
State TV anchor Mehdi Khanalizadeh accused Trump of choosing to ‘spill the blood of your soldiers’, before adding: ‘The US president in the Oval Office chose to take delivery of the coffins of up to 50,000 US soldiers in Washington.’
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IDF reveals why it launched its most powerful strikes in Tehran to date
A huge wave of strikes hit targets including an IRGC headquarters in Tehran.
The IDF has provided more details on its ‘unprecedented’ attacks in Tehran today after the Iranian regime’s military and governmental headquarters were targeted in airstrikes.
The Israeli Air Force has launched strikes on the Revolutionary Guards and Iran’s internal security forces which the IDF said was responsible for ‘preserving the regime’s stability’.
In a translated post on X, the IDF said:
As part of the attack, the Basig headquarters was attacked, which is one of the Revolutionary Guards’ power bases and is responsible, among other things, for enforcing the Islamic code and reporting to the authorities about citizens who violate it.
In addition, the “Albarez” Brigade, which is responsible for protecting several cities in the Tehran province from various threats and maintaining the stability of the regime, and the Intelligence and General Security Police of the Internal Security Forces, which are also part of the Iranian regime’s military forces, were attacked.
These headquarters are significant from both a military and a governmental perspective, and attacking them harms the Iranian regime’s military capabilities.
