Israel strikes Tehran as counterattacks widen

An enormous explosion rocked Iran’s capital on Sunday as the Israeli military said it was targeting the heart of the city.



Earlier, Iran fired missiles at an ever-widening list of targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel.



The blast in Tehran sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky and shook the ground.



It appeared centered in neighborhoods home to the country’s police headquarters and Iranian state television, as well as Tehran’s Revolutionary Court and a Defense Ministry building.



Saturday’s joint US-Israel strikes on Iran opened a stunning new chapter in US intervention and carried the potential for retaliatory violence and a wider war, representing a startling flexing of military might for an American president who was swept into office on an “America First” platform and vowed to keep out of “forever wars.”



This was the second time in eight months that the Trump administration has used military force against the Islamic Republic.

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