If I remember correctly, the actual news station is on the first floor so it makes sense.
Official Israel Vs. Iran 2025 thread: First post updates! US, Israel attacks set Iran back months at best. Ceasefire in effect. Everybody wins(?)
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If I remember correctly, the actual news station is on the first floor so it makes sense.
53m ago
(16:05 GMT)
‘Calling someone a mouthpiece doesn’t give you permission to kill them’
Foad Izadi, professor of international relations at the University of Tehran, says he fears there are going to be “a lot of casualties” following the attack on the building of Iran’s state-run television.
Footage from the scene shows the building engulfed in flames.
“It’s a huge building,” Izadi told Al Jazeera. “Iran’s news channel is located on the first floor. It has four floors, and on every floor you have at least 200-300 people working,” he said.
“They were getting ready for the evening programmes. This is going to result in a lot of civilians – generally young people, young journalists – getting killed,” he added, noting that people who are not working as journalists would also have been in the building at the time of the attack.
Izadi said he expected the attack to spark international outrage and be condemned by international media outlets.
“Calling someone a mouthpiece doesn’t give you permission to kill them,” he said.
“If you don’t like the content of the news channel, it doesn’t give you permission to eliminate the people who work there,” Izadi added, describing Sahar Emami – the presenter who was live on air at the moment of the attack – as “a true journalist”.
“[She is] very unbiased and very fair in her reporting.”
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Veteran
My aim is offIF THE VILLAINS ARE TELLING U TO STOP
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
No we don't 
Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has encouraged the United States to “enter into this very important operation” in Iran, telling CNN that President Donald Trump “has the option to change the Middle East and influence the world.”
Asked whether he was concerned that Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility remained intact, Gallant told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga: “We believe that the United States of America, and the President of the United States, has an obligation to make sure that the region is going (in) a positive way, and that the world is free from (an) Iran that possesses (a) nuclear weapon in the middle of the richest place in oil and gas in the world.”
“This could be a disaster for the world,” Gallant said of Iran gaining potential nuclear capabilities. “I believe that the determination of the American President, that has been shown recently, will pave the way to America to enter into this very important operation.”
The Fordow facility, which is buried deep underground in a mountainside near Qom in northern Iran, houses advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium up to high grades of purity.
It has remained intact since Israel started striking Iranian nuclear sites on Friday, and analysts have told CNN it is likely that only the US has the weapons required to damage the site.
“The President of the United States has the option to change the Middle East and influence the world … to do something that will create a better future for all of us,” Gallant said when asked about Fordow. Golodryga’s question did not make any reference to the US or to potential American involvement in the operation.
US rejects assassination plan: Trump rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one US official told CNN on Sunday. Asked whether Khamenei is a target, Gallant, who helped plan the operation against Iranian nuclear sites but has no ongoing involvement with the operation, said: “All options are on the table.”
When asked whether regime change in Iran was among Israel’s targets, Gallant said: “I’m not resisting, I’m supporting, (a) change of regime in Iran, but a lot of it has to be done by the Iranian people, and not by us or America.”
Asked whether returning Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear capabilities would be a successful outcome of the operation, Gallant said, “there is only one way to end this war.”
“We need to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities,” he said.
Gallant was Israel’s Defense Minister from 2022 to 2024, before Netanyahu fired him in November amid a disagreement over the objectives of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
US has "obligation" to assist Israel’s operation in Iran, former Defense Minister Gallant tells CNN
From CNN’s Bianna Golodryga and Rob PichetaFormer Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has encouraged the United States to “enter into this very important operation” in Iran, telling CNN that President Donald Trump “has the option to change the Middle East and influence the world.”
Asked whether he was concerned that Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility remained intact, Gallant told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga: “We believe that the United States of America, and the President of the United States, has an obligation to make sure that the region is going (in) a positive way, and that the world is free from (an) Iran that possesses (a) nuclear weapon in the middle of the richest place in oil and gas in the world.”
“This could be a disaster for the world,” Gallant said of Iran gaining potential nuclear capabilities. “I believe that the determination of the American President, that has been shown recently, will pave the way to America to enter into this very important operation.”
The Fordow facility, which is buried deep underground in a mountainside near Qom in northern Iran, houses advanced centrifuges used to enrich uranium up to high grades of purity.
It has remained intact since Israel started striking Iranian nuclear sites on Friday, and analysts have told CNN it is likely that only the US has the weapons required to damage the site.
“The President of the United States has the option to change the Middle East and influence the world … to do something that will create a better future for all of us,” Gallant said when asked about Fordow. Golodryga’s question did not make any reference to the US or to potential American involvement in the operation.
US rejects assassination plan: Trump rejected a plan by the Israelis to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one US official told CNN on Sunday. Asked whether Khamenei is a target, Gallant, who helped plan the operation against Iranian nuclear sites but has no ongoing involvement with the operation, said: “All options are on the table.”
When asked whether regime change in Iran was among Israel’s targets, Gallant said: “I’m not resisting, I’m supporting, (a) change of regime in Iran, but a lot of it has to be done by the Iranian people, and not by us or America.”
Asked whether returning Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear capabilities would be a successful outcome of the operation, Gallant said, “there is only one way to end this war.”
“We need to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities,” he said.
Gallant was Israel’s Defense Minister from 2022 to 2024, before Netanyahu fired him in November amid a disagreement over the objectives of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
Because these attacks are AI
3m ago
(17:00 GMT)
Turkish President Erdogan says Israel attacked Iran with “comprehensive and insidious purposes”.
His comments come after a phone call with President Putin, during which both leaders condemned what they described as an Israeli “act of force” and called for an immediate end to hostilities.
“Both sides expressed the most serious concern about the ongoing escalation of the Iran-Israel conflict, which has already led to a large number of casualties and is fraught with serious long-term consequences for the entire region,” the Kremlin said in a statement following the call.
(17:00 GMT)
Erdogan accuses Israel of ‘insidious’ motives after strikes on Iran
Turkish President Erdogan says Israel attacked Iran with “comprehensive and insidious purposes”.
His comments come after a phone call with President Putin, during which both leaders condemned what they described as an Israeli “act of force” and called for an immediate end to hostilities.
“Both sides expressed the most serious concern about the ongoing escalation of the Iran-Israel conflict, which has already led to a large number of casualties and is fraught with serious long-term consequences for the entire region,” the Kremlin said in a statement following the call.
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1/11
@goddeketal
> 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country.
> Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities.
> It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh.
> He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP.
> Cold War excuse.
> CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax.
> Mossadegh is overthrown.
> They install the Shah, a brutal US-backed dictator.
> Secret police. Torture chambers.
> Iran turns into a puppet state.
> People are that desperate, they turn to Khomeini, an exiled cleric, promising independence and dignity.
> 1979: Islamic Revolution.
> The Shah flees.
> US embassy stormed. Hostage crisis.
> America never forgives.
> Arms Saddam Hussein.
> Iraq invades Iran.
> US provides chemical weapons, satellite intel, logistics.
> 1 million Iranians die.
> Iranian kids sent into minefields with plastic keys around their necks.
> US shoots down Iran Air Flight 655
> 290 civilians dead.
> No apology.
> Fast forward today, Israel attacks Iran.
> The U.S. immediately says “we stand with Israel.”
> They talk about “regime change.”
> They say that Iranians “deserve freedom.”
> No mention of the coup they started.
> No mention of the dictator they installed.
> No mention of the war they fueled.
> No mention of the decades of sanctions and sabotage.
> They created the monster, and now act shocked it’s still breathing.
2/11
@JaneOrrickMD
Hmmm.
I would have started earlier, Simon.
Iran is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations and has existed, with its own unique character, culture, language, and politics, since around 4000BC.
The Medeans ruled in 700BC, Cyrus the Great came along in 550BC--those were two Persian regimes--then afterwards came a series of empires that ruled. Macedonian, Seleucid, Parthian, Sassanian--that brings us up to the second century AD.
The Muslims invaded after that. So in 700AD the Rashidun Caliphate ruled Persia. Eight hundred years later, a Persian regime finally regained power--the Savafid Dynasty united Persia in 1501 and is the reason for its Shiite character.
By the 1700s the Russians and the British were fighting over Persia. They took some Persian territory and divided it up between them in the Treaty of Constantinople in 1724, for example.
The Qajar Dynasty rose to power in 1799 ,the last dynasty before the Persian Constitutional Revolution.. The first parliamentary session was in 1906.
The British discovered oil in 1908 in the southernmost province of Persia. Oil at volume was being produced from a large refinery at Abadan by 1913. Persia stayed neutral during WWI. It was still invaded by British forces who seized its oil fields to secure supply lines.
In 1925 Reza Shah came to power. He ruled for 16 years until the invading anglo forces forced him to abdicate the throne to his more pliant son, Mohamed Reza Pahlavi.
In 1951 (at some point the Persians requested that Persia be called Iran) Iran's foreign minister said that he had received enough votes in the
parliament to nationalize the British-owned oil industry. This became known as the Abadan crisis. (It is always considered a crisis when regular people wake up and take back what is theirs, but really it is only a crisis for the elites in power.)
Shortly thereafter on 19 August a successful coup was headed by a retired Iranian army general, aided by the United States (CIA) with the active support of the British (MI6) (this was known as Operation Ajax and Operation Boot to the respective agencies). The coup—with a black propaganda campaign designed to turn the population against Mosaddeq (the prime minister of Iran at that time) — forced Mosaddeq from office. Mosaddeq was arrested and tried for treason.
Iran was ruled as an autocracy under the Shah with American support from that time until the revolution. An international consortium of foreign companies ran the Iranian oil facilities for the next 25 years, splitting profits fifty-fifty with Iran but not allowing Iran to audit their accounts or have members on their board of directors.
In 1957 martial law was ended after 16 years and Iran became closer to the West, joining the Baghdad Pact and receiving military and economic aid from the US. In 1961, Iran initiated a series of economic, social, agrarian and administrative reforms to modernize the country that became known as the Shah's White Revolution.
In the 1970s, leftist guerilla groups emerged and overthrew the Shah during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
In mid-1973, the Shah returned the oil industry to national control. Following the Arab-Israeli War of October 1973, Iran did not join the Arab oil embargo against the West and Israel. Instead, it used the situation to raise oil prices, using the money gained for modernisation and to increase defense spending.
The Iranian Revolution, also known as the Islamic Revolution,was the revolution that transformed Iran from an absolute monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the West's lapdog) to an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, one of the leaders of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic.
Iran officially became an Islamic Republic on 1 April 1979, after Iranians overwhelmingly approved a national referendum to make it so a day before.
Following the admitting of the former Shah of Iran into the US for cancer treatment, on 4 November 1979, Iranian students seized US embassy personnel. Fifty-two hostages were held for 444 days until January 1981. An American military attempt to rescue the hostages failed.
The takeover was a hit in Iran, where thousands gathered every day, and strengthened the prestige of the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was at this time that Khomeini began referring to America as the "Great Satan." In America, where it was considered a violation of the long-standing principle of international law that diplomats may be expelled but not held captive, it created a powerful anti- Iranian backlash.
In the midst of this crisis, financed and encouraged by US officials like Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran at Khuzestan, precipitating the Iran–Iraq War.
The attack took revolutionary Iran completely by surprise.
That brings us up to the 80s. My childhood.
Iran has, for most of its existence, been under assault by more powerful nations, due to its vast wealth/resources.
Iran is targeted because it does not bow to a hegemon.
3/11
@goddeketal
Thank you for this in-depth history lesson.
4/11
@sambalatteman
Please tell us you’re really not that simple minded
5/11
@goddeketal
At least you couldn’t call me a liar.
6/11
@rayhan_biruni
@grok on scale of 1 to 10 how historical accurate is this
7/11
@grok
The historical accuracy of the narrative is about 8/10. Key events like the 1953 coup, 1979 Revolution, and US support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war are well-documented, but casualty figures, like 1 million Iranian deaths, are likely exaggerated. The claim of Iranian children used in minefields is supported, though the scale is debated. Recent Israel-Iran strikes in June 2025 are accurate, but US support is more nuanced than claimed, with no clear evidence of regime change rhetoric. The 1950s Western-like depiction oversimplifies rural-urban divides. Overall, the narrative is mostly accurate but includes some exaggerations and simplifications.
8/11
@BehizyTweets
Most people still don't know that side of history.
9/11
@SFSportsAndTech
Correct about the 1953 CIA coup. The worst US foreign policy blunder in its history.
10/11
@antoinegilyn
US GO HOME
11/11
@rebeccavrse
Fast forward till today?
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@goddeketal
> 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country.
> Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities.
> It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh.
> He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP.
> Cold War excuse.
> CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax.
> Mossadegh is overthrown.
> They install the Shah, a brutal US-backed dictator.
> Secret police. Torture chambers.
> Iran turns into a puppet state.
> People are that desperate, they turn to Khomeini, an exiled cleric, promising independence and dignity.
> 1979: Islamic Revolution.
> The Shah flees.
> US embassy stormed. Hostage crisis.
> America never forgives.
> Arms Saddam Hussein.
> Iraq invades Iran.
> US provides chemical weapons, satellite intel, logistics.
> 1 million Iranians die.
> Iranian kids sent into minefields with plastic keys around their necks.
> US shoots down Iran Air Flight 655
> 290 civilians dead.
> No apology.
> Fast forward today, Israel attacks Iran.
> The U.S. immediately says “we stand with Israel.”
> They talk about “regime change.”
> They say that Iranians “deserve freedom.”
> No mention of the coup they started.
> No mention of the dictator they installed.
> No mention of the war they fueled.
> No mention of the decades of sanctions and sabotage.
> They created the monster, and now act shocked it’s still breathing.
2/11
@JaneOrrickMD
Hmmm.
I would have started earlier, Simon.
Iran is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations and has existed, with its own unique character, culture, language, and politics, since around 4000BC.
The Medeans ruled in 700BC, Cyrus the Great came along in 550BC--those were two Persian regimes--then afterwards came a series of empires that ruled. Macedonian, Seleucid, Parthian, Sassanian--that brings us up to the second century AD.
The Muslims invaded after that. So in 700AD the Rashidun Caliphate ruled Persia. Eight hundred years later, a Persian regime finally regained power--the Savafid Dynasty united Persia in 1501 and is the reason for its Shiite character.
By the 1700s the Russians and the British were fighting over Persia. They took some Persian territory and divided it up between them in the Treaty of Constantinople in 1724, for example.
The Qajar Dynasty rose to power in 1799 ,the last dynasty before the Persian Constitutional Revolution.. The first parliamentary session was in 1906.
The British discovered oil in 1908 in the southernmost province of Persia. Oil at volume was being produced from a large refinery at Abadan by 1913. Persia stayed neutral during WWI. It was still invaded by British forces who seized its oil fields to secure supply lines.
In 1925 Reza Shah came to power. He ruled for 16 years until the invading anglo forces forced him to abdicate the throne to his more pliant son, Mohamed Reza Pahlavi.
In 1951 (at some point the Persians requested that Persia be called Iran) Iran's foreign minister said that he had received enough votes in the
parliament to nationalize the British-owned oil industry. This became known as the Abadan crisis. (It is always considered a crisis when regular people wake up and take back what is theirs, but really it is only a crisis for the elites in power.)
Shortly thereafter on 19 August a successful coup was headed by a retired Iranian army general, aided by the United States (CIA) with the active support of the British (MI6) (this was known as Operation Ajax and Operation Boot to the respective agencies). The coup—with a black propaganda campaign designed to turn the population against Mosaddeq (the prime minister of Iran at that time) — forced Mosaddeq from office. Mosaddeq was arrested and tried for treason.
Iran was ruled as an autocracy under the Shah with American support from that time until the revolution. An international consortium of foreign companies ran the Iranian oil facilities for the next 25 years, splitting profits fifty-fifty with Iran but not allowing Iran to audit their accounts or have members on their board of directors.
In 1957 martial law was ended after 16 years and Iran became closer to the West, joining the Baghdad Pact and receiving military and economic aid from the US. In 1961, Iran initiated a series of economic, social, agrarian and administrative reforms to modernize the country that became known as the Shah's White Revolution.
In the 1970s, leftist guerilla groups emerged and overthrew the Shah during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
In mid-1973, the Shah returned the oil industry to national control. Following the Arab-Israeli War of October 1973, Iran did not join the Arab oil embargo against the West and Israel. Instead, it used the situation to raise oil prices, using the money gained for modernisation and to increase defense spending.
The Iranian Revolution, also known as the Islamic Revolution,was the revolution that transformed Iran from an absolute monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the West's lapdog) to an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, one of the leaders of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic.
Iran officially became an Islamic Republic on 1 April 1979, after Iranians overwhelmingly approved a national referendum to make it so a day before.
Following the admitting of the former Shah of Iran into the US for cancer treatment, on 4 November 1979, Iranian students seized US embassy personnel. Fifty-two hostages were held for 444 days until January 1981. An American military attempt to rescue the hostages failed.
The takeover was a hit in Iran, where thousands gathered every day, and strengthened the prestige of the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was at this time that Khomeini began referring to America as the "Great Satan." In America, where it was considered a violation of the long-standing principle of international law that diplomats may be expelled but not held captive, it created a powerful anti- Iranian backlash.
In the midst of this crisis, financed and encouraged by US officials like Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran at Khuzestan, precipitating the Iran–Iraq War.
The attack took revolutionary Iran completely by surprise.
That brings us up to the 80s. My childhood.
Iran has, for most of its existence, been under assault by more powerful nations, due to its vast wealth/resources.
Iran is targeted because it does not bow to a hegemon.
3/11
@goddeketal
Thank you for this in-depth history lesson.
4/11
@sambalatteman
Please tell us you’re really not that simple minded
5/11
@goddeketal
At least you couldn’t call me a liar.
6/11
@rayhan_biruni
@grok on scale of 1 to 10 how historical accurate is this
7/11
@grok
The historical accuracy of the narrative is about 8/10. Key events like the 1953 coup, 1979 Revolution, and US support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war are well-documented, but casualty figures, like 1 million Iranian deaths, are likely exaggerated. The claim of Iranian children used in minefields is supported, though the scale is debated. Recent Israel-Iran strikes in June 2025 are accurate, but US support is more nuanced than claimed, with no clear evidence of regime change rhetoric. The 1950s Western-like depiction oversimplifies rural-urban divides. Overall, the narrative is mostly accurate but includes some exaggerations and simplifications.
8/11
@BehizyTweets
Most people still don't know that side of history.
9/11
@SFSportsAndTech
Correct about the 1953 CIA coup. The worst US foreign policy blunder in its history.
10/11
@antoinegilyn
US GO HOME
11/11
@rebeccavrse
Fast forward till today?
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3 min ago
The deadly conflict between Israel and Iran has entered its fourth day as both countries are assessing the damage caused by the latest round of strikes.
Overnight, Iranian missiles struck an Israeli oil refinery and the power grid. Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces said it destroyed about a third of Iran’s missile launchers.
Here’s what else you should know:
Deadly conflict between Israel and Iran continues to escalate. Here's what we know
From CNN staffThe deadly conflict between Israel and Iran has entered its fourth day as both countries are assessing the damage caused by the latest round of strikes.
Overnight, Iranian missiles struck an Israeli oil refinery and the power grid. Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces said it destroyed about a third of Iran’s missile launchers.
Here’s what else you should know:
- Iran fired more than 300 missiles at Israel: Tehran has fired 370 ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones at Israel over four days of conflict, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said. The projectiles successfully struck 30 sites in Israel. In Kermanshah, Iran, a missile facility suffered damage by Israeli strikes, as did a hospital in the city.
- Casualties: According to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, 24 people had been killed in Israel and 592 others have been wounded, with 10 of those in serious condition, since hostilities began Friday. In Iran, at least 224 people have been killed since Friday, the country’s health ministry said yesterday, as cited by Iranian state media.
- Israel warns Tehran “will pay the price” as Iran calls for unity: “The arrogant dictator of Tehran has become a cowardly murderer,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X. “The residents of Tehran will pay the price, and soon.” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called for unity and defended his country’s nuclear program. “The people of Iran must join hands and stand strong against the aggression that has been launched against us,” Pezeshkian said, saying the Iranians were “not the aggressors.”
- Evacuation warnings: Both Iran and Israel have warned residents of the other country to evacuate from areas close to important military sites for their own safety. Earlier today, the Israeli military issued an evacuation order in the 3rd District of Tehran ahead of planned strikes on what it said was military infrastructure in Iran’s capital.
- Iran rules out negotiations with US until it completes retaliation: Iran told Oman and Qatar that it will engage in negotiations with the US while Iranian cities “remain under attack” from Israel, and until Tehran’s response is complete, a regional diplomat told CNN.
- Trump declines to sign G7 statement on conflict: President Donald Trump does not intend to sign a joint statement calling for de-escalation between Israel and Iran drafted by G7 leaders in Canada, according to a person familiar with the matter.
- US State Department raises travel advisory for Israel to highest level: The Level 4 advisory was issued in response to the State Department authorizing family members of US government personnel and nonemergency personnel to voluntarily leave amid the back-and-forth attacks.
5 min ago
The Israeli military confirmed it attacked the studio of Iran’s state television channel, IRINN, on Monday.
The Israel Defense Forces said its air force “conducted a precise strike based on intelligence provided by the Intelligence Directorate, targeting a communication center that was being used for military purposes by the Iranian Armed Forces.”
“The building was used by the Iranian Armed Forces under the guise of civilian activity, covering up the military use of the center’s infrastructure and assets. The strike directly harmed the military capabilities of the Iranian Armed Forces,” the IDF added.
Confirmation of the strike comes after explosions interrupted a live broadcast by anchor Sahar Imami.
“Prior to the strike, the IDF provided an effective advanced warning to the civilian population, including phone calls, and conducted the strike in a precise manner in order to mitigate harm to civilians as far as feasible,” the IDF said.
Earlier Monday, the IDF issued an evacuation order in Tehran’s 3rd District, where the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting has offices. IRINN is part of IRIB. In a post in Farsi on X, the IDF said it would take action in the district in the coming hours to attack the Iranian regime’s military infrastructure.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also confirmed the military struck the studio.
“The Iranian regime’s propaganda and incitement broadcasting authority was attacked by the IDF after a large-scale evacuation of the surrounding area. We will hit the Iranian dictator everywhere,” Katz said on X.
Israel confirms its military attacked studio of Iran’s state television channel
From CNN’s Eve Brennan, Dana Karni and Michael RiosThe Israeli military confirmed it attacked the studio of Iran’s state television channel, IRINN, on Monday.
The Israel Defense Forces said its air force “conducted a precise strike based on intelligence provided by the Intelligence Directorate, targeting a communication center that was being used for military purposes by the Iranian Armed Forces.”
“The building was used by the Iranian Armed Forces under the guise of civilian activity, covering up the military use of the center’s infrastructure and assets. The strike directly harmed the military capabilities of the Iranian Armed Forces,” the IDF added.
Confirmation of the strike comes after explosions interrupted a live broadcast by anchor Sahar Imami.
“Prior to the strike, the IDF provided an effective advanced warning to the civilian population, including phone calls, and conducted the strike in a precise manner in order to mitigate harm to civilians as far as feasible,” the IDF said.
Earlier Monday, the IDF issued an evacuation order in Tehran’s 3rd District, where the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting has offices. IRINN is part of IRIB. In a post in Farsi on X, the IDF said it would take action in the district in the coming hours to attack the Iranian regime’s military infrastructure.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also confirmed the military struck the studio.
“The Iranian regime’s propaganda and incitement broadcasting authority was attacked by the IDF after a large-scale evacuation of the surrounding area. We will hit the Iranian dictator everywhere,” Katz said on X.
So they going to let this Polish Bastid just say this with no repercussions
