US-IRAN War. Ayatollah Khamenei killed. Iranian missiles and drones all over Middle East. Iran closes Strait of Hormuz

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Every part of Tehran has been hit, journalist in Iranian capital tells BBC​

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"This is a systematic attack on not just the military but civilians," journalist Mohammad Khatibi tells BBC World Service from inside Iran.

He says "every part" of the capital, Tehran, has been hit by US and Israeli strikes since the conflict erupted on Saturday.

This includes communication towers, broadcasting stations and the city's Grand Bazaar, which Khatibi says has been "reduced to rubble".

Asked what the reaction has been to the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - killed in US-Israeli strikes - Khatibi says there were "small groups" of people celebrating but there's been no large-scale unrest.

He also says that due to strikes on military and police installations - which typically respond to such unrest - he believes "separatists and opposition groups outside of Iran" will soon call for demonstrations similar to what Iran saw in January - which saw thousands killed.

"This [regime change] was the plan all along," Khatibi claims. "The nuclear issue I think it was just the excuse."

• A reminder: International news organisations are often refused visas to Iran, which severely limits their ability to gather information there.

 

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BBC Persian

US has enough weapons stocked for 'forever' war, Trump says​

published at 13:59​

"We have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.

In his latest remarks, he also accuses his predecessor Joe Biden of providing Ukraine with "so much of the super high end"

At the end of his four-year term, Biden had allowed Ukraine to use powerful long-range ATACMS missile

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Israeli military says it has hit Iran's presidential office​

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We're seeing an update from the Israeli military, which says its air force has struck the Iranian regime's leadership compound.

In a statement on Telegram, the IDF says "numerous munitions" were dropped on the Presidential Office and the Supreme National Security Council.

It adds that a military training institution and "additional key regime infrastructure" were also hit.

Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the compound, the IDF says. Khamenei was killed at his own compound over the weekend in US-Israeli strikes.

 

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War expert warns of 'very serious shortages' in interceptor munitions if fighting continues another week​

By Charlotte Reck

US President Donald Trump sits at a table monitoring military operations during Operation Epic Fury against Iran on Monday.
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As the military objectives of the United States and Israel appear to be shifting, uncertainty is setting in regarding the missile capabilities of Iran, according to The Economist’s defense editor.

Shashank Joshi told CNN’s Becky Anderson a short while ago that recent messaging from US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has changed since the strikes began on Saturday.

“The war aims were framed not as President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu framed them three days ago, in terms of setting the stage for the Iranian people to rise up and sweep away this regime, but they framed them much more narrowly in terms of Iran’s missile capabilities,” he explained.

But the security expert said the US and Israel are likely to maximize hindrance to Iran’s war effort by attacking at every point of the Iranian operation.

“We will see a sustained effort to go after not just Iranian missiles and Iranian missile launchers but also, and this is very important, the supply chain for those missiles,” Joshi predicted.

The journalist emphasized that, by design, no one knows the capacity of the interceptor stockpile any nation started this conflict with. “But my supposition is that, after about sort of another week of this, we would begin to see very, very serious shortages, particularly of the most high-end interceptor munitions,” he added.

 

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Satellite images show Iranian nuclear complex damaged​

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By Paul Brown

BBC Verify has reviewed satellite imagery of new damage to Iran’s nuclear complex at Natanz.

The images, published by intelligence company Vantor on Monday, show three buildings within the complex in central Iran have been hit.

Vantor’s analysis states they were linked to "personnel and vehicle entrances to the underground fuel enrichment complex".

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has made a similar assessment, adding that "no radiological consequence [is] expected".

The latest imagery also shows existing damage from a US air strike last year when several Iranian nuclear sites were targeted in a US operation called Midnight Hammer.

 

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End goal is to "cripple" Iran's Islamic regime, says former IDF soldier​

By Charlotte Reck

Iran's judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, left, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a jurist member of the Guardian Council, form the new leadership council of Iran in this handout image released on Sunday.
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The “end goal” of the Israeli government is to “cripple” the Islamic regime in Iran, a former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier has told CNN.

“The end goal at this stage is to try to cripple,” Miri Eisin told CNN’s Elex Michaelson earlier. “That doesn’t mean demolish, but to cripple the capabilities the Islamic regime have in Iran.”

The Israeli population is largely supportive of its government’s collaborative operation with the United States across the Middle East, according to the retired colonel.

“The bulk of Israelis support this,” she said. “I would say even a change of government in Israel would not change the way that we feel about this Islamic regime’s threat.”

Eisin, who is currently sheltering with her sister in Tel Aviv, also described a national appreciation for US President Donald Trump, saying he is “overwhelmingly popular” in Israel.

Unlike Israel, US voters have largely expressed disapproval of the Trump administration’s military action in Iran, citing little desire to be engaged in conflict abroad.

But Eisin said Israeli voters find Trump’s foreign policy favorable.