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Reports of strikes in Tabriz
We are now receiving reports that explosions have been heard in the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran. Video clips published on local platforms and verified by Al Jazeera show columns of smoke rising from the site of the attack.
Explosions heard across Tehran
We heard the sound of an explosion in the west of Tehran, where our bureau is located.
We have received reports indicating that another explosion was heard in the southern parts of Tehran, along with the activation of the air defence system at a location near Parchin, a military complex belonging to the Ministry of Defence.
Shock and fear in Tehran after Israel bombs residential, military areas
Roya, a 62-year-old resident of Iran’s capital, was jolted awake just after 3am by the sound of explosions in her Marzdaran neighbourhood in western Tehran.
“It was absolutely terrifying. My heart was beating out of my chest,” she told Al Jazeera. “I saw smoke on the horizon and at first thought all the strikes were farther away, but when the images came out, I found that a home just a few streets from us was hit too.”
Across Tehran, residents were grappling with the shock of the first air strikes on heavily populated residential areas across the city since the eight-year Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.
A damaged building in Saadatabad in northwestern Tehran where two nuclear scientists were killed in Israel’s strikes
Influential commentator Tucker Carlson urges Trump to ‘drop’ Israel
Carlson has been a leading voice within right-wing circles calling for Trump to avoid being dragged to war with Iran by Israel. After Israel attacked Iran, the talk-show host, who spoke at the Republican National Convention last year, said the US should not support Netanyahu’s “war-hungry government” in the conflict.
“If Israel wants to wage this war, it has every right to do so. It is a sovereign country, and it can do as it pleases. But not with America’s backing,” the Tucker Carlson Network morning newsletter read.
It added that a war with Iran could “fuel the next generation of terrorism” or lead to the killing of thousands of Americans in the name of a foreign agenda.
“It goes without saying that neither of those possibilities would be beneficial for the United States,” the newsletter said. “But there is another option: drop Israel. Let them fight their own wars.”
