In a post shared on social media, CENTCOM also said that more than 155 Iranian vessels have been damaged or destroyed, noting that US nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines are taking part in Operation Epic Fury, as well as a fleet of aircraft ranging from F-35 stealth fighter jets to B-52 bombers.
Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency says that a US-Israeli projectile has struck a synagogue in central Tehran, according to Al Jazeera.
In a post on Telegram, Mehr also included a 12-second video showing rescue workers, damaged books and piles of rubble.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said that “arrangements” were being made for a phone call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian as war rages in the Middle East, AFP reports.
“I recall what I said yesterday was that we were making arrangements to do a telephone call with the Iranian president,” Takaichi said in parliament.
“We have to communicate both with the US and Iran, so we are seeking telephone calls with the presidents of both countries,” she told a upper house budget committee meeting.
Earlier Tokyo said that Iran had freed a Japanese national held since January, with Kyodo News reporting that the person was believed to be the Tehran bureau chief of broadcaster NHK.
Iranian army has said that US President Donald Trump’s “rude” and “arrogant rhetoric” is having “no effect” on its operations, reports AFP.
Donald Trump’s “arrogant rhetoric” on the war on the Middle East is not hindering Iran’s soldiers, Iran’s army said, after the US president on Monday threatened to raze Iran’s infrastructure.
“The rude, arrogant rhetoric and baseless threats of the delusional US president … have no effect on the continuation of the offensive and crushing operations of the warriors of Islam against the American and Zionist enemies,” said a spokesman for the army’s Khatam Al-Anbiya central command cited by the national broadcaster.
Qatar’s prime minister has rejected attacks on civilian infrastructure during a call with Iran’s foreign minister, as Tehran presses its campaign against Gulf states and Israel said it struck Iran’s largest petrochemical complex, AFP reports.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani “emphasised that targeting civilian infrastructure… is a rejected and condemned behaviour by any party under any circumstances”, Qatar’s foreign ministry has said in a readout of a call with Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi.
The Qatari prime minister has also criticised Iran’s “reckless disregard for the region’s security” through its attacks on its neighbours and urged a “comprehensive and permanent diplomatic solution” to end the war.
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) says a US-Israeli attack targeted a production plant near Ardakan in Iran’s Yazd province, which processes uranium ore into yellowcake, a key material used in the process to generate nuclear fuel, Al Jazeera reports.
In a statement carried by Iran’s IRIB broadcaster, the AEOI slammed the attack as a “clear violation of the immunity of peaceful nuclear facilities and a direct assault on the supply chain for reactor fuel and the development of nuclear medicine”.