TEHRAN (Kashmir English): Iran has said that the country’s air defence system has been activated across several Iranian cities.
According to Iranian media, air defence has been activated in Tehran, north-western Tabriz and central Yazd.
The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency quoted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as saying that two military zones were targeted in the Yazd province earlier on Sunday, which killed seven IRGC members and two conscripts.
Meanwhile, Israel said it’s launching new attacks on Tehran and Iran’s west.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on social media that it’s currently attacking targets in Iran.
In a post to its Hebrew-language X account, external, the Israeli military said its air force is targeting “military infrastructure” in Tehran and western Iran.
Furthermore, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general, Rafael Grossi, has said it can confirm the sites at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan were hit by US overnight strikes.
He said the sites at Isfahan and Natanz had previously been damaged by Israeli strikes, with “extensive additional damage” caused by the new strikes at Isfahan.
He further said that it is “clear” the underground Fordo site was “directly impacted” by the strikes but that the “degree of damage inside the uranium enrichment halls can’t be determined with certainty”.
Iranian regulatory authorities
Iranian regulatory authorities have told the IAEA that there has been “no increase in off-site radiation levels after the latest attacks on the three Iranian nuclear sites”.
Earlier in the day, Donald Trump posted a long message on Truth Social, taking aim at Republican Congressman Thomas Massie – who criticised the US strikes on Iran as not “constitutional”.
The US President wrote: “We had a spectacular military success yesterday, taking the ‘bomb’ right out of their hands (and they would use it if they could!) but, as usual, and despite all of the praise and accolades received, this ‘lightweight’ Congressman is against what was so brilliantly achieved last night in Iran.”
He concluded: “MAGA is not about lazy, grandstanding, nonproductive politicians, of which Thomas Massie is definitely one.
“Thank you to our incredible military for the AMAZING job they did last night. It was really SPECIAL!!!”
