PREVIEW

BY MARK WORGAN

These images and this video footage show U.S. Central Command forces carrying out Operation Epic Fury, a coordinated series of attacks on sites across Iran, over the weekend.

The strikes, launched on Saturday, targeted senior officials, military commanders and key facilities. Iranian state media has confirmed the death of the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

On his TRUTH social media site, US President Donald Trump wrote: “This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS.”

In the hours and days that followed the action, retaliatory Iranian missile strikes were reported across the Middle East.

A joint statement from Gulf states and the United States condemned Iran’s “indiscriminate and reckless missile and drone attacks”.

In Kuwait, on Monday, the U.S. military said “several” US fighter planes had crashed. The cause is under investigation. No deaths were initially reported.

Israel has also been involved in the operation, striking both Iran and hitting Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.

As of Monday, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said 555 people had been killed in Iran following US and Israeli attacks across more than 130 cities.

On Sunday, an Iranian missile strike killed nine people in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh.
In Cyprus, a British RAF base was targeted by what officials described as a “suspected drone strike”, prompting family members to be moved from the base.