💥 OPENING STRIKE AND OPERATIONAL SCALE: The IDF Spokesperson says more than 1,200 munitions were dropped by Israeli Air Force fighter jets over the past 24 hours. Footage was released showing takeoffs for the strikes.
🎯 KHAMENEI AND SENIOR IRANIAN LEADERSHIP ELIMINATED: Defense Minister Israel Katz says Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was eliminated in Tehran yesterday.
“The tyrant Khamenei was eliminated in the opening strike of Operation Roaring Lion, along with other senior figures in the Iranian terror regime’s stronghold,” Katz says.
“Whoever worked to destroy Israel, was destroyed. Justice has been done and the axis of evil sustained a crushing blow,” he adds.
Iranian state television has confirmed the elimination of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi and Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh.
Iran also officially confirmed last night the elimination of Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s defense council, and the death of Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
⚠️ TRUMP WARNING AND CLAIMED INTENT: US President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that Iran had signaled it intended to strike “very hard” later in the day.
“Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever been hit before. THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
⚠️ LARIJANI: INTERIM COUNCIL AND THREATS TO US BASES: Ali Larijani says a temporary leadership council will be established until the next leader is elected.
He says the president, the head of the judiciary, and a jurist from the Guardian Council selected by the Council for National Interests will quickly establish the council, and that arrangements were made at a meeting yesterday.
Larijani says Iran told the US through the Swiss embassy that if the United States attacks again, Iran will hit US bases, and that Iran does not intend to attack regional countries.
He says when regional bases serve America, Iran attacks them and will continue to attack, adding that the armed forces are determined to continue the struggle.
🛫 AIRSPACE CLOSURE AND EL AL MEASURES: EL AL says it is evacuating all of its aircraft outside Israel.
Israel’s airspace is completely closed to civil aviation.
🚀 IRANIAN ATTACKS ON GULF STATES
So far, Iran has fired the following at Gulf states: United Arab Emirates: 208 drones and 137 ballistic missiles; Qatar: 66 drones and ballistic missiles, with the vast majority missiles; Bahrain: 9 drones and 45 ballistic missiles.
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