Iran Guards say targeted Israel PM Netanyahu's office
TEHRAN
an's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday their missile attacks have targeted the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the headquarters of the Israeli air force commander.
"The office of the criminal prime minister of the Zionist regime and the headquarters of the regime's air force commander were targeted," the Guards said in a statement carried by Fars news agency.
It said Kheibar missiles were used in the attack.
According to a report by the Tasnim news agency, the Revolutionary Guards claimed that Netanyahu's fate was “uncertain” following the attack.
There was no immediate confirmation from Israel that Netanyahu’s office had been hit, and the claim could not be independently verified.
The announcement came as Iran and Israel continue exchanging attacks following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 and Iran’s retaliatory missile launches, which prompted emergency measures in Israel.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said early Monday they had launched missile strikes on Israel's government in Tel Aviv as well as security and military centres in Haifa and an attack on east Jerusalem.
"Among the targets of this tenth wave were a targeted strike on the Zionist regime's government complex in Tel Aviv, attacks on military and security centres in Haifa, and a strike on east Jersualem," said a Guards statement carried by state TV.
It said Kheibar ballistic missiles were used in the attack.
On Sunday, an Iranian missile attack killed at least nine people and injured dozens more in the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, medics said.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society said on Monday that the U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign targeting Iran has killed at least 555 people so far in the Islamic Republic.
The society added that 131 cities have come under attack so far in the war.
Israel and Hezbollah also traded fire on Monday, while President Donald Trump vowed to avenge the deaths of U.S. service members and said the war with Iran could last for weeks.
Israel said it was striking Hezbollah targets across Lebanon after the militant group said it had launched rockets and drones at Israel.
The European Union has warned of the cost to the Middle East of a long war, and said it was reinforcing its naval mission in the Red Sea.
Large-scale strikes on Tehran
The Israeli military said it launched "large-scale strikes" on Tehran two days after the start of a U.S.-Israeli campaign against the Islamic republic.
"The Israeli Air Force... has begun an additional wave of strikes against the Iranian terror regime at the heart of Tehran," the military said in a statement.
An Iranian official said Monday that U.S. and Israeli strikes over two days have left at least 27 people dead in Iran's northwest.
"The number of martyrs who have fallen over the past two days in the province as a result of Israeli and American attacks reached 27," said Majid Farshi, director general of the East Azerbaijan province crisis management department, as quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
Iran says no US negotiation
Iran "will not negotiate with the United States", Ali Larijani, the powerful head of Tehran's Supreme National Security Council said on Monday, denying media reports that Iranian officials had sought to initiate talks.
He said Trump's "delusional fantasies" had plunged the region into chaos.
Trump told the New York Times on Sunday that he had "three very good choices" for who could lead Iran, but he did not name them.
"I won't be revealing them now. Let's get the job done first," he said.
Trump also said he envisaged a four-week military operation against Iran, where U.S. and Israeli strikes have killed the country's supreme leader and crippled its defense capabilities.
"It's always been a four-week process. We figured it will be four weeks or so," he told British newspaper the Daily Mail during a round of interviews.
Revolutionary Guards HQ 'destroyed'
The U.S. military announced it had destroyed the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) headquarters, U.S. Central Command saying: "America has the most powerful military on earth, and the IRGC no longer has a headquarters."
Israel's military, meanwhile, said it had "struck dozens of the regime's military command centres", including IRGC headquarters.
Tehran police station hit
Iranian media reported that a police station in a city on the outskirts of Tehran had been hit, killing an unspecified number of people, with others reportedly trapped under debris.
"According to initial reports, a number of citizens were martyred and some were trapped under the rubble," the Tasnim News Agency reported.
Iranian news agency ISNA also reported that Gandhi hospital in northern Tehran had been targeted by strikes.
The Fars and Mizan agencies published a video, presented as being from inside the facility, showing debris on the floor among wheelchairs.