France, Germany and the United Kingdom announced tonight that they are ready to take "proportionate defensive actions" to destroy Iranian military capabilities, French media reported.
The leaders of the three countries today, in response to the attacks carried out by the United States and Israel in Iran, expressed in a joint statement their "appallment at Iran's indiscriminate and disproportionate missile attacks on countries in the region."
"Iran's reckless attacks target our close allies and threaten our military personnel and civilians across the region," the statement said, adding that the three countries call on Iran to immediately cease these attacks.
Paris, Berlin and London have expressed their readiness to take "necessary and proportionate defensive actions to destroy Iran's ability to launch missiles and drones."
"We agreed to cooperate with the United States and allies in the region on this issue," the joint statement added.
The US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, to which Tehran responded by targeting Israel, Kuwait, Bahrain and other Middle Eastern countries.
US President Donald Trump warned today that combat operations in Iran are continuing and will continue until all of Washington's goals are achieved, Reuters reports.
In a video posted on Truth Social, Trump confirmed that three members of the US military had been killed and said there would likely be more casualties, vowing to avenge the deaths of Americans.
"Combat operations are continuing at full strength at this time and will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives," Trump said.
Mourners gathered in Tehran's Vali-Asr Square today after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated on Saturday, the BBC reports.
Meanwhile, smoke could be seen over the city throughout the day, as Israeli strikes continued.
US President Donald Trump has suggested that the conflict with Iran could last for the next four weeks, the Daily Mail reported today, according to Reuters.
"It's always been a four-week process. We estimated it would be about four weeks. It's always been about a four-week process, so – as strong as it is, it's a big country, it's going to take four weeks – or less," the British newspaper quoted Trump as saying.
Trump told the newspaper that he remains open to additional talks with the Iranians, but did not specify whether that would happen "soon."
"I don't know," Trump said, according to the text. "They want to talk, but I said you should have talked last week, not this week," he added.
US President Donald Trump told Fox News today that 48 leaders were killed in US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Reuters reports.
"It's moving on. It's moving fast. It's been like this for 47 years. It's moving fast. Nobody can believe the success we're having - 48 leaders gone in one go. And it's moving fast," Trump was quoted as saying in an interview with a Fox News reporter.
The interview with Trump was posted on the X Network by Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing" host Jackie Heinrich.
The US military has so far carried out strikes on more than 1.000 Iranian targets since it began the campaign on Saturday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said today, Reuters reports.
In the information document, the Central Command stated under the item "Types of targets":
command and control centers
IRGC Joint Staff
IRGC Aerospace Force headquarters
integrated air defense systems
ballistic missile sites
Iranian Navy ships
Iranian Navy submarines
anti-ship missile locations
military communication capabilities
Seven Iranian military commanders have been killed in attacks across the country, including the chief of staff of the armed forces commander, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, Reuters reported.
Iranian media are reporting that a police station near Tehran and a hospital north of the Iranian capital were targeted in airstrikes, the Paris-based newspaper Le Monde reported on its website.
"Tehran's Gandhi Hospital was attacked in American-Zionist airstrikes," ISNA reported.
The Fars and Mizan news agencies also reported the information and published a video, allegedly recorded inside the hospital, showing damage and debris on the floor, including a wheelchair.
Le Monde reported that it could not confirm the authenticity of these videos from independent sources.
Several Iranian media outlets reported that a police station located in Ray, on the outskirts of Tehran, was also targeted by Israeli-American airstrikes on Sunday evening, and that some people were trapped under the rubble.
"Several civilians were killed and others are still buried under the rubble," the media added, without giving a number of casualties.
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Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, called on Iranians today to celebrate the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with "songs every night", to remain safe and to make their demands for the future of Iran clear and loud.
In a statement published in Farsi and English on the X platform, Pahlavi called Ali Khamenei "a demon, who ordered the massacre of thousands of sons and daughters of Iran."
"With his dishonorable death, and the death of many of his associates, the Islamic Republic is expiring," said Pahlavi, who presents himself as a figure of democratic transition.
"For the honorable and courageous people of Iran, the death of the despot of our time, while marking the beginning of a great national celebration, is not the end of the road. Stay alert, be prepared. The time for a broad and decisive presence on the streets is very near," he said.
In a column in the Washington Post on Saturday night, Pahlavi thanked US President Donald Trump for the attack on Tehran and confirmed his readiness to lead a transition of power in Iran.
Pahlavi believes this would only be a transitional role as he has faced criticism, with some fearing he will re-establish the monarchy.
"Many Iranians, often at great personal risk, have called on me to lead this transition. I am impressed by their courage and I have responded to their call," Pahlavi wrote in the column.
"Our path will be transparent: a new Constitution drawn up and ratified by referendum, followed by free elections under international supervision. When the Iranians vote, the interim government will be dissolved," Pahlavi added.
Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli attacks on Iran on Saturday, along with several other senior Iranian officials.
Twenty-seven European Union (EU) countries today called for "maximum restraint" and full respect for international law in the conflict with Iran and across the Middle East, EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Kaja Kallas said.
"We call for maximum restraint, protection of civilians and full respect for international law, including the principles of the United Nations Charter and international humanitarian law," said a statement issued by Kallas on behalf of all EU member states.
European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen said tonight that the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli air strikes brings "new hope for the Iranian people" and called for a democratic transition of power in Iran.
Foreign ministers from the 27 European Union (EU) countries, most of which are NATO members, held an emergency video conference today to discuss the crisis in the Middle East.
"We must ensure that the future belongs to the Iranian people and that they can shape it," Ursula von der Leyen wrote on social media.
According to her, this moment also carries a real risk of instability that could push the region into a spiral of violence.
"The risk of escalation is real. That is why a credible transition is urgently needed. This must mean an end to Iran's military nuclear and ballistic missile programs, as well as an end to destabilization," she added.
Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli attacks on Iran on Saturday, along with several senior Iranian officials.
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Israeli strikes hit a hospital in Tehran's "Gandhi Street" area, two witnesses told Reuters today, saying the hospital was badly damaged and patients were being evacuated.
The British Ministry of Defense announced today that a Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter jet operating from Qatar shot down an Iranian drone that was heading towards Qatari territory, Reuters reports.
US President Donald Trump announced today that the US military is sinking the Iranian navy, having so far destroyed nine Iranian warships and "continuing with the rest", Reuters reports.
Trump made the announcement in a message on social media as the Pentagon stepped up its bombing of the Iranian military, deploying B-2 stealth bombers from the United States (US) to bomb fortified, underground Iranian missile facilities.
The American strikes, as Trump said, also hit Iran's naval headquarters hard, largely destroying it.
The Iranian military is responding with hundreds of missile and drone strikes, and the United States today confirmed the first three deaths of American soldiers killed in combat. Five others were seriously wounded during the conflict, the US Central Command said.
Trump, who has announced plans to completely destroy Iran's navy, said the remaining Iranian warships would soon be sunk.
"They'll be floating on the bottom of the sea soon. Besides, their navy is doing great," Trump said.
Iranian state television was the target of an "American-Zionist attack," the television station reported on Telegram tonight, adding that the channel's current broadcasts are continuing normally.
"A technical team is assessing the damage," added the television station, whose headquarters in Tehran were previously targeted by Israeli attacks in June, during the 12-day war.
Citing eyewitnesses, the Parisian newspaper Le Monde reported tonight that two strong explosions had been heard in Tehran, where detonations had also been heard throughout the day.
The Israeli military said on Telegram that it was continuing its attacks on Tehran, adding that it was attacking defense systems "belonging to the Iranian terrorist regime in the center of Tehran."
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said today that his country has no limits on defending itself against US-Israeli air strikes.
"Iran places no limits on its right to defend itself against the widespread US-Israeli campaign of airstrikes," Araghchi told the US television network ABC.
"We defend ourselves, regardless of the cost, and we place no limits on the defense and protection of our people. No one can tell us that we do not have the right to defend ourselves," the Iranian minister added.
According to him, what the United States is doing is an act of aggression.
"What we are doing is defending ourselves. That is completely different," Aragchi added.
Israel and the United States attacked Iran early Saturday morning. Iran responded with missile attacks on a number of countries in the region, mostly where there is a US presence.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who served two terms as president of Iran from 2005 to 2013, was killed in an Israeli-American airstrike, Iranian media reported, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The attack hit the former president's residence in Narnak, northeast of Tehran. Iranian media reported that he and several of his bodyguards were killed.
The attack in Narnak likely took place late Saturday night.
Before becoming president, Ahmadinejad was the governor of Ardabil province and the mayor of Tehran.
After two presidential terms, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Ahmadinejad to the 48-member Advisory Council of the Supreme Leader's Office.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on Iran today to immediately stop its "random" attacks, after Iranian authorities responded to US-Israeli attacks with attacks on neighboring countries where there is a US presence.
The death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei means that "the threshold to an uncertain future has been crossed," Merc said on social media, adding that he shares the "relief" Iranians felt "seeing that the religious regime is coming to an end."
The German Chancellor has confirmed his visit to Washington on Tuesday, where he is expected to discuss developments in the Middle East with US President Donald Trump.
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The death toll from an Iranian missile attack on the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh has risen to at least nine, rescue workers said, in the deadliest strike in the country since the start of the war on Saturday, the British newspaper The Guardian reports.
The newspaper reported that there were reports that an Iranian missile had hit a residential area in the central part of the Israeli district of Beit Shemesh.
The Israeli rescue service Magen David Adom (MDA) earlier said that at least eight people were killed in the attack.
"Additional MDA teams are treating and evacuating 28 injured to hospitals, including: 2 in serious condition, 2 in moderate condition, and 24 with minor injuries," the statement said.
Rescuers are searching for people feared trapped under the rubble.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that his country will step up attacks on Iran in the coming days and added that he had given instructions for the continuation of the Israeli operation against Iran.
"On Saturday, we eliminated the tyrant (Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei, and with him dozens of senior officials of the repressive regime. Our forces are currently operating in the center of Tehran, with increasing intensity, and this will intensify even further in the coming days," Netanyahu said in a televised address.
The Israeli prime minister said the military is fully engaged to ensure the country's existence and its future.
Netanyahu welcomed the United States' support to "destroy the terrorist regime" of Iran.
Israel and the United States attacked Iran early Saturday morning. Iran responded with missile attacks on a number of countries in the region, primarily where there is a US presence.
Khamenei was killed in an American-Israeli operation, along with several dozen senior Iranian officials.
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