TEHRAN -- Iran's Health Ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour said on Sunday that 244 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Iran over the past 65 hours.
In a post on the social media platform X, Kermanpour noted that women and children were among the dead, and that 1,277 people had been hospitalized. (Iran-Israeli Airstrikes-Casualties)
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced Sunday that the head of its intelligence organization Mohammad Kazemi, and his deputy Hassan Mohaghegh, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Tehran.
According to its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC also confirmed the death of another senior intelligence official in the same attacks on Sunday. (Iran-Israeli Attacks-Military Commanders)
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JERUSALEM -- Iranian aerial attacks killed at least six people and injured 140 others in Israel early on Sunday, Israeli authorities said.
Air sirens and sounds of explosions sent millions running to shelters in dozens of cities across Israel, the military said in a statement.
A residential building in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, was hit by a missile, causing it to collapse. Another missile struck a residential area in Rehovot, a city in Israel's Central District, causing dozens of injuries. (Israel-Iranian Attacks-Casualty)
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ANKARA -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to take immediate action to end the conflict between Iran and Israel, while expressing Türkiye's readiness to facilitate diplomacy to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute.
During their second phone call in two days, Erdogan welcomed Trump's recent statements on ending the conflict between Israel and Iran, Erdogan's office said in a statement. (Türkiye-Iran-Israel Conflict-Immediate Action) ■
