Israel strikes state-run Iranian TV throughout reside broadcast

State-run tv abruptly stopped a reside broadcast after the station was hit, in accordance with Iran’s state-run information company.

Whereas on the air, an Iranian state tv reporter mentioned the studio was filling with mud after “the sound of aggression in opposition to the homeland.” All of the sudden, an explosion occurred, reducing the display screen behind her as she hurried off digicam.

The published rapidly switched to prerecorded applications. The station later mentioned its constructing was hit by 4 bombs.

An anchor mentioned on air that a couple of colleagues had been harm, however their households shouldn’t be nervous. The community mentioned its reside applications had been transferred to a different studio.

Israeli navy spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin mentioned his nation’s forces had “achieved full aerial superiority over Tehran’s skies.”

The navy mentioned it destroyed greater than 120 surface-to-surface missile launchers in central Iran, a 3rd of Iran’s complete, in addition to two F-14 planes that Iran used to focus on Israeli plane and a number of launchers simply earlier than they launched ballistic missiles in direction of Israel.

Israeli navy officers additionally mentioned fighter jets had struck 10 command facilities in Tehran belonging to Iran’s Quds Power, an elite arm of its Revolutionary Guard that conducts navy and intelligence operations outdoors Iran.

The Israeli strikes “quantity to a deep and complete blow to the Iranian menace,” Defrin mentioned.

Elsewhere, three drones struck South Pars, Iran’s foremost fuel manufacturing heart, in accordance with Iranian state information. The report didn’t specify the extent of the harm.

Iran, in the meantime, introduced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed additional retaliation for the sweeping assaults on its navy and nuclear infrastructure which have killed not less than 224 individuals within the nation since Friday.

Up to now, 24 individuals have been killed in Israel and greater than 500 injured, Israeli officers mentioned, after Iran launched greater than 370 missiles and a whole bunch of drones.

One missile fell close to the American consulate in Tel Aviv, with its blast waves inflicting minor harm, US ambassador Mike Huckabee mentioned on X. He added that no American personnel had been injured.