LIVE: Iran’s IRGC intelligence chief killed by airstrike

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced the head of its intelligence Majid Khademi has been killed by an Israeli airstrikes this morning.

In a statement published on Telegram, the Revolutionary Guards said Khademi was an ‘esteemed commander’ who helped defend the regime for 50 years.

Khademi was appointed the head of the IRGC’s intelligence division in June last year when his predecessor Mohammed Kazemi was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Tehran during the 12-day war.

The IDF has claimed responsibility for Khademi’s assassination.

The Kremlin has said the entire Middle East is ‘on fire’ when asked about the latest threats made by Donald Trump towards Iran.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the death of IRGC intelligence chief Majid Khademi has ‘severed’ another ‘central arm’ of the Iranian regime.

Netanyahu said on X: ‘Tonight, we eliminated Majid Khademi, head of the Intelligence Division in the Revolutionary Guards, one of the Iranian regime’s senior officials, who had only recently assumed his role after his predecessor was eliminated.

‘In addition, we eliminated Asghar Bakri, commander of Unit 840 in the Quds Force, who is responsible for attacks against Jews and Israelis around the world.

‘Whoever acts to murder our citizens, whoever directs terror against the State of Israel, whoever builds the Iranian axis of evil—their blood is upon their head’.

Israel has struck Beirut’s southern suburbs today after its army warned residents to evacuate.

Pictures show clouds of smoke billowing as Israel targeted a Hezbollah stronghold that has been pummelled and largely emptied following repeated strikes.

It comes after an Israeli strike targeting an apartment building in a town east of Beirut killed three people, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

‘Israeli enemy airstrike on the hills of Ain Saadeh kills three civilians, including two women, and injures three others,’ the ministry said in a statement.

by Perkin Amalaraj, Foreign News Reporter

This is the terrifying moment an Iranian missile lands just yards away from an Israeli woman, who somehow manages to walk away alive.

Footage taken early this morning in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva showed the woman getting out of a dark grey car just before 7am local time.

She was seen using her phone, before looking upwards. Less than a second before the impact of the missile, she could be seen reacting to its approach.

The woman was thrown to the ground as the missile struck to leave a large plume of smoke and dust rising through the air.

Somehow, she managed to survive the attack and was seen stumbling away. Local media reported that although the woman survived the attack, she was seriously injured.

Iranian embassies across the world are trolling Donald Trump on X following the President’s latest threat to bomb Iran’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz is fully reopened.

Iranian diplomats in Zimbabwe asked Trump if he can change the time of his deadline as 8pm ‘is not that good’. The same account also responded ‘we’ve lost the keys’ when Trump demanded ‘Open the F*****’ Strait’.

While statements published by Iranian embassies in the UK and Finland questioned Trump’s intelligence.

The UK account posted a Mark Twain quote after sharing Trump’s expletive-laden Truth Social statement.

It said: ‘It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.’

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has declared Donald Trump ‘will be humiliated’ as the clock ticks down on a new deadline imposed by the US leader.

Writing on X, Pezeshkian said Trump will soon join Jimmy Carter in overseeing foreign policy disasters relating to Iran.

Under Carter’s presidency, eight US soldiers were killed in a failed operation to rescue hostages held under the Iranian revolution.

Pezeshkian said: ‘Carter was humiliated, and Trump will be too,’ in reference to the Iran.

Israel’s Air Force bombed three airports in Tehran overnight, the IDF has declared.

Israeli military say the airports were used by Iran’s elite Quds Force, the overseas operations arm of the Revolutionary Guards.

Runways and control towers were targeted along with a Quds Force factory that manufactured drones, the military said in a statement published on Telegram.

The message was posted after Israel’s army said it had completed a wave of strikes against ‘regime targets’ in Tehran.

‘A short while ago the IDF completed a wave of strikes on Iranian terror regime targets in Tehran,’ the Israeli military posted on Telegram.

Iran won’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a temporary ceasefire, a senior Iranian official has told Reuters.

They added Tehran currently views Washington as lacking the readiness for a permanent ceasefire.

The official confirmed Iran had received Pakistan’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and was reviewing it, adding that Tehran does not accept being pressured to accept deadlines and make a decision.

US forces located on Kuwait’s Bubiyan island were targeted by Iran, the spokesperson of Iran’s army said in a video shared by state media today.

Ebrahim Zolfaqari said Iran targeted satellite equipment and munitions on the island with drones, adding that US soldiers had relocated there from Arifjan camp after that base was repeatedly struck by Iran.

Bubiyan island is the largest of Kuwait’s coastal islands chain, located in the northwest of the Gulf.

Six people were injured from debris falling in a residential area in northern Kuwait after an Iranian attack, Kuwait’s health ministry said earlier.

by Melissa Koenig, US Reporter

US forces undertook a daring military operation to rescue an Air Force colonel who hid in the crevice of a mountain after his plane was downed by enemy fire.

The unidentified airman was one of two crew members flying inside an F-15E Strike Eagle when it was struck down over a remote area of Iran.

A pilot and a weapons system officer were both flying in the F-15E with the call sign of ‘Dude 44’ when the aircraft was struck and they abandoned in parachutes.

The pilot was rescued by two military helicopters that same day, but the airman remained missing for nearly 48 hours.

The weapons system officer only had a handgun to protect himself and was left seriously injured after being thrown out of the F-15.

But he managed to evade Iranians for nearly two days by climbing 7,000 feet atop a mountain and hiding in a remote crevice.

An Iranian attack on a residential area in northern Kuwait has injured six people, the Gulf country’s health ministry said.

It followed a post on X by Kuwait’s army earlier in the day saying the nation’s air defences were working to intercept incoming missiles and drones.

‘Falling projectiles and debris in a residential area in the north of the country after an Iranian aggression,’ the ministry said.

‘The total number of injuries rose to six, with varying degrees of wounds.’