Big explosion rocks Tehran as Israel targets heart of the city
發佈日期: 2026-03-01 20:54
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Iran fired missiles at targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states Sunday after vowing massive retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel Saturday, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten Tehran against further escalation.
This as an enormous explosion rocked Iran's capital Sunday as the Israeli military said it was targeting the heart of the city.
Meanwhile, Trump called for the people of Iran to bring down the government but analysts believe regime change will be difficult.
The U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran Saturday from land and at sea which they called Operation Epic Fury.
Trump saying they were targeting military capabilities and aiming to eliminate the threat of Tehran creating a nuclear weapon. These videos released by U.S. Central Command. Black and white satellite footage of targets exploding once hit, also released.
U.S. forces saying strikes focused on locations that posed an imminent threat including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities.
Iran's state media announced that the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in one of these major attacks by Israel and the United States, calling the attack 'barbaric' and the governments 'criminal'. Strikes in southern Iran's Hormozgan province also hit a girls school killing 115, Iranian state TV reports.
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and top security adviser to the late Supreme Leader were also killed in the American-Israel airstrikes, state media reported.
IRNA news agency announced the death of Major General Mohammad Pakpour who took over as the Guard's top commander after Israel killed its past commander in the 12-day June war.
Also killed was Ali Shamkhani, a long-time figurehead within Iran's security establishment.
Photos released by the White House show the U.S. president and vice president talking to CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles at Mar-a-Lago during
Operation Epic Fury.
Despite the U.S. and Israel attack and death of the Ayahtollah regime change in Iran is unlikely according to analysts.
Dr. Marion Messmer, International Security Programme director at Chatham House said: "We've had two US air campaigns, one last summer, saying that they want to end the Iranian nuclear programme, which they haven't quite done. And now an air campaign that says that they want to affect regime change in Iran,where it's also uncertain whether they're going to manage that.
But the result essentially is that it's beginning to look actually very dangerous to negotiate with the United States, because it seems that if the negotiation isn't going in the direction that the U.S. wants, they might just bomb you. And I'm not sure that that's really a message that we want,states around the world, to internalise."
