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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-01T04:01:54.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nUS and Israeli forces have launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iranian cities close to key nuclear sites.\n\nOn Sunday, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed operations targeting Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure and air defence systems.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn its latest update, the IDF said: \"The Israeli Air Force has struck more than 30 targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime across Iran, including aerial defence systems, missile launchers, regime targets, and military command centres.\"\n\nUS Central Command later confirmed the new wave of strikes on social media, posting: \"The Iranian regime was warned.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n\"CENTCOM is now delivering swift and decisive action as directed.\"\n\nResidents have reported a number of explosions in the Iranian capital of Tehran.\n\nBlasts were also recorded in Bushehr and Qom, a holy city in Shia Islam.\n\nIt remains unclear whether the strikes have caused casualties or damage to nearby nuclear facilities.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nQom lies around 20 miles from Fordow, a key uranium enrichment facility that Mr Trump previously claimed had been \"totally obliterated\" during last June’s 12-day Israeli-Iranian conflict.\n\nBushehr, a port city on the Persian Gulf in south-western Iran, is just 11 miles from a nuclear power station partly operated by Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom.\n\nThe renewed action came after confirmation of Ayatollah Khamenei’s death.\n\nIranian state media announced the Supreme Leader had been killed on Sunday morning.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Keir Starmer urged to crack down on 'Iranian propaganda network’ operating across Britain\n  * Briton in Dubai shares footage after 'scary' Iran bombing raid as expats fear being left stranded\n  * World Cup thrown into chaos as Fifa chiefs hold 'crisis talks' after US military strikes on Iran\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nPresident Donald Trump declared that \"the most evil man\" was now dead.\n\n\"This is not only justice for the people of Iran, but for all great Americans,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the death of the Ayatollah, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed to unleash its \"most devastating\" attacks yet on Israel and the US imminently.\n\nA statement from the elite military force read: \"The most devastating offensive operation in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran's armed forces will begin toward the occupied territories and American terrorist bases in just moments.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe Islamic Republic launched a series of retaliatory strikes on Saturday following the initial US and Israeli bombardment.\n\nMissiles were fired at American bases across the Middle East as well as civilian targets.\n\nThe barrage breached Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, with projectiles striking Tel Aviv and killing a woman in her forties with 20 people were also let injured.\n\nAt least 130 Iranians have been killed and 200 injured after the US and Israel launched waves of strikes across the country, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has reported.\n\nThe figures are based on a preliminary report, which said the majority of casualties occurred in Tehran.\n\nIt added that at least 58 separate attacks were carried out across 18 provinces in Iran.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter**\n",
  "title": "US and Israel unleash fresh wave of strikes against Islamic Republic 'nuclear sites'"
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