Israel strikes Intelligence Ministry building in Tehran - Khabar Online

Israeli airstrikes struck across Tehran from east to west and north to south on Sunday, with explosions reported in Niavaran, Azadi Stadium, Keshavarz Boulevard, and the Niroo Havaei district, according to videos and Iranian media reports.

Footage shared with Iran International showed thick smoke rising from Keshavarz Boulevard following a direct hit.

Another viewer reported a blast near Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, while Tasnim News Agency confirmed a strike in the eastern Niroo Havaei area.

Smoke now blankets much of Tehran’s skyline, as multiple districts reel from the latest wave of attacks.

Continued Israeli attacks would draw even more painful and forceful responses, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said during a phone call with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on Sunday, according to Iranian state media.

“We were not the ones who started this war, but we responded decisively,” he said.

Pezeshkian called Israel’s strike on Iranian territory via Iraqi airspace a clear act of aggression and urged Baghdad to better safeguard its skies.

Missile strikes hit areas near Iran’s Interior Ministry and several key districts of Tehran on Sunday, with blasts reported in Fatemi Square, Jannat Abad, Valiasr, Shush, and around the Aladdin Mall, according to Iranian media and eyewitness videos.

A viewer told Iran International that Jannat Abad was hit minutes earlier, while Tasnim reported an explosion near Valiasr Square.

Khabar Online said central Tehran was struck by two major projectiles, and Didban Iran confirmed damage near Jomhouri and Hafez streets.

Iran would pay a very heavy price for killing civilians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after a missile strike hit a residential building in Bat Yam early Sunday, killing six Israelis and wounding dozens more.

“Iran will pay a very heavy price for the murder of civilians — women, children — that it carried out deliberately,” Netanyahu said at the scene, according to a statement from his office.

“We will achieve our objectives, and we will strike them with overwhelming force.”

Four more people were killed in a separate strike on the northern town of Tamra. Netanyahu framed the confrontation as existential.

“Think about what would happen if Iran had a nuclear weapon to drop on Israel’s cities,” he warned. “That is why we launched a war of rescue… Our soldiers, our pilots, are above the skies of Iran.”

He expressed condolences to the victims’ families and urged the public to follow safety instructions from the Home Front Command.

“Protect your lives — and together, with God’s help, we will win,” he said.

Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group in Iraq, warned it would strike US bases in the region if the United States intervenes in the conflict between Iran and Israel.

The group said it is closely monitoring the military movements of the Americans in the region.