Israel unleashes widescale attack on Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, missile factories

Middle East updates: Israel attacks Iran

  • Senior adviser to Ali Khamenei ‘critically injured’: report
  •  US senator slams Israeli airstrikes on Iran as ‘reckless escalation’
  •  Iran confirms death of Revolutionary Guards chief in Israeli strike
  •  Iran appoints new military leaders following Israeli attacks
  • ran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei swiftly appointed new Revolutionary Guards and armed forces chiefs to replace those killed in targeted Israeli strikes on Friday.

    In separate decrees, Khamenei named Mohammad Pakpour to replace Hossein Salami as commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Abdolrahim Mousavi to replace Mohammad Bagheri as chief of the armed forces general staff.