Israel bombs Tehran as Iranians taunt Trump (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
Israel has conducted yet another wave of strikes against infrastructure targets including an airport in Tehran, after striking at least two petrochemical facilities in Iran the day before.
In the meantime, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense claimed the debris from a successful “interception and destruction” of at least seven ballistic missiles fell in the vicinity of its energy facilities, with the damage still being “assessed.”
Israeli forces attacked Iran’s largest petrochemical facility in the South Pars natural gas field and a petrochemical complex in the city of Marvdasht earlier on Monday – as US President Donald Trump has stepped up threats to strike Iran’s infrastructure if American and Israel-linked shipping is not allowed through the Strait of Hormuz by Wednesday.
“It is Trump who has about 20 hours to either surrender to Iran or see his allies return to the Stone Age. We will not back down!” Mahdi Mohammadi, a senior adviser to Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, claimed.
Tehran has reportedly rejected a US ceasefire proposal, circulated by Egyptian, Pakistani, and Turkish mediators, instead offering a ten‑clause plan that calls for a permanent end to the war. The demands reportedly include an end to conflicts across the region, protocols to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the lifting of sanctions, and provisions for reconstruction.
Key developments:
- Riyadh has yet to officially confirm the scale of the damage, but multiple videos shared by pro-Iranian sources purportedly show several explosions and a large fire at the country’s industrial area of Jubail, which alone produces roughly 7 percent of the world’s petrochemical products.
- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the IDF would target Iranian leadership “one by one,” after Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, head of intelligence for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in one of the strikes.
- Iran’s Health Ministry says at least 2,076 people have been killed since February 28, including 240 women and 212 children, with more than 26,500 injured.
- At least 15 Americans were injured in an Iranian drone strike on Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait overnight, CBS News reports, citing two US officials.
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07 April 2026
12:46 GMTIranian media also reported that explosions rocked Iran’s strategic Kharg Island oil terminal following reported US-Israeli air strikes on Tuesday, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Mehr news agency said warplanes carried out several strikes on the island, which handles about 90% of Iran’s oil exports, making it a critical energy hub.
US forces struck more than 50 military targets on the island, the Wall Street Journal said citing American officials, including bunkers, radar systems and ammunition depots.
The strikes come hours before a deadline set by US President Donald Trump over the Strait of Hormuz, marking a sharp escalation in the fighting.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned of broader retaliation, saying any crossing of Tehran’s “red lines” would trigger a response “beyond the region.”
It said the Guards would target infrastructure “to deprive the United States and its allies of oil and gas in the region for years.”
- 11:00 GMT
The US has carried out strikes on targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, Axios has reported, citing a senior US official.
The official said the targets were military in nature. Kharg Island is Iran’s main oil export hub.
- 10:34 GMT
At least 18 people, including two children, have been killed in new US-Israeli airstrikes on residential areas in Iran’s Alborz province, Iranian media have reported.
Fars News Agency cited the province’s deputy governor as confirming the deaths and saying 24 others were wounded.
The latest strikes come as the war enters its sixth week, with more than 1,600 civilians reported killed across Iran since the start of the campaign in late February, according to rights groups.
The initial wave of strikes included an attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab, one of the deadliest single incidents of the war, in which at least 175 people, mostly children, were killed.
Separate footage released by Iranian Press TV showed a funeral procession for Mohammad Taha Jafari, a student killed in the Minab school strike, whose body was recovered more than 30 days after the attack.
US forces reportedly carried out the Minab strike based on outdated intelligence.
Funeral procession of the young Iranian student Mohammad Taha Jafari, one of the martyrs of the Minab school massacre His body was recovered after more than 30 days pic.twitter.com/CTeSkWsYNf
— Tehran Times (@TehranTimes79) April 7, 2026
- 10:08 GMT
Three suspects were killed in a shootout near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul’s Besiktas district on Tuesday, Turkish media has reported.
Gunfire was heard near the building, though it was not immediately clear whether the consulate itself was the intended target.
CNN Turk, citing Istanbul police, said the suspects were killed after security forces responded, adding that two police officers were wounded in the exchange.
At least three people were killed in the incident, according to media reports.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli consulate has been closed for around two years and that no Israeli diplomats are currently stationed in Türkiye.
Video footage shows a police officer taking cover as gunshots rang out, while another person was seen lying wounded.
The Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office said an investigation had been launched, adding prosecutors had been dispatched to the scene and that the probe was being conducted “meticulously and from all angles.”
Gun battles in Istanbul from my brother’s camera pic.twitter.com/CofnpYv3ne
— N.Y. Yazgan (@YigitBruxelles) April 7, 2026 - 09:18 GMT
Warning sirens have sounded in Bahrain, with the Interior Ministry urging residents to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place.
The siren has been sounded .Citizens and residents are urged to remain calm and head to the nearest safe place .
— Ministry of Interior (@moi_bahrain) April 7, 2026 - 09:18 GMT
Khorramabad airport in western Iran has been hit in a US-Israeli air strike, according to Iranian media reports.
Mehr news agency cited local officials as saying damage assessments were underway.
Pour Ali, deputy governor of Lorestan province in western Iran, said the airport, also known as Shohada Airport, had been targeted in a US-Israeli attack, adding there were no immediate reports of casualties.
- 09:18 GMT
US officials have repeatedly branded Iran as a “radical regime,” a nation driven by “religious fanatics” and “terror and hate” since the war began.
Tehran, however, insists its conflict is not with the American people, drawing a distinction between Washington’s leadership and the US public.
RT’s Oumaima Ichchar takes a closer look at who Washington is really confronting — and why, she argues, it may not be the Islamic Republic itself.
- 08:39 GMT
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is unconscious and receiving medical treatment, the Times has reported, citing US and Israeli intelligence assessments.
The newspaper claimed Khamenei was in critical condition in the city of Qom and, according to an intelligence document, was unable to make decisions.
There was no immediate confirmation or public comment from Iranian officials. Khamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was named to the office following his father’s death in an Israeli strike last month.
- 08:26 GMT
